Chapter Nineteen
Several days later, Gabe stood at the counter of the local hardware store. He needed a few items for the house and his boat.
Gabe listened half-heartedly to the gossip Fred Albert was sharing. Fred had owned Fred’s Hardware, Marine, and the Five and Dime for the last twenty-five years. His wife Mildred had once told Gabe that when Fred died, she was going to have him stuffed and put in the window. Personally, Gabe wasn’t sure the woman had been joking.
“I heard the Coast Guard found Ross’s boat today anchored offshore,” Fred said as he rang up the items. “They think he must have gotten tangled up in one of his nets and fallen overboard.”
“Why do they think that?” Gabe asked, glancing at the front of the store where Magna was looking at some garden statues.
The man shr
