They knocked the wall through in October. Not the wall of either shop — those stayed, HARTLEY'S in flaking gold and MARCHETTI in fine grey-green, because the town would not have stood for losing either sign and neither, in the end, would Nora. What they knocked through was smaller and more sensible: the back of Hartley's storeroom met the back
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