CHAPTER 29ENOUGH SENSE
Mr. Gordon’s pitiful cries continued to haunt Ryan into the weekend. On Saturday, he sought to subdue them by indulging in one of his greatest pleasures: checking out the sizable selection of new and used acoustic guitars at Elementary Strings, a shop housed in an old one-room schoolhouse. The girls were all away at sleepovers, and Kelly had gone out for a run and some coffee with Dianne and Juleen, so he felt at ease to lose himself in the smell and feel of the many finely crafted instruments. He fell in love with a used Martin Auditorium and was itching to buy it, but he had splurged on a brand-new Baby Taylor back in March and had yet to play it. Such a level of conspicuous consumption was just too much for him to bear, so after reluctantly relinquishing the inst
