Stories Of The Strange And Sinister (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) - Plot & Excerpts
They had been in business together for over twenty years, a partnership that was broken, first, by the departure of Mr Hoare to his native town in Yorkshire (in 1941), and, very soon after, by the death of Mr Weary. So, for the last time, the shutters were put up to the music shop on Calverley Hill and the names were almost forgotten, commemorated only by those who knew a little of the inner history of the partners, and by the words themselves – Weary and Hoare – painted in blue and gold letters above the long peeling shutters of the bay windows. Inside the shop the stacks of music, the gramophone records, the busts of famous composers, the Bechstein piano behind the door (by whose means Mr Hoare had liked to interpret the ‘Valse Triste’ of Sibelius) – all these, and even the account books, it is said, remain untouched, in exactly the same position – though in more decaying a condition – as on the day, four years earlier, when Mr Weary was forced to retire, a dying man, to his bed.
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