I Was His Wife, She Was His Everything novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: Truth
Clancy moved his charter boat up the Wando that afternoon.
He tied it alongside the old trawler, nose to tail, close enough to hear the man snore.
"I'll sleep on deck till Monday," he said. "Anybody comes down that dock, they come past me."
Sallie came back from the county office at noon with an empty red cooler and a single sheet of paper.
She taped the paper to the front of the register with four long strips of tape.
Then she stepped back so everybody could read it.
PAID IN FULL.
The old shrimper with the bad hip started clapping.
Sallie pointed one finger at me down the length of the bar.
"Don't you cry in my bar, sugar. The kitchen's already wet enough."
I cried in her bar.
The fire marshal had shut the kitchen until the gas line passed inspection.
Sallie put a hand-lettered sign on the door.
RAW BAR ONLY. NOTHING FRIED. BLAME THE ARSONIST.
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