Romance
Copyright© 2015 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 12
Romance: Another country heard from:12.
Rather than spend hours hoping to sell another knife, Kevin Pipes and John Parker loaded everything back up into their old U Haul van and followed us back to Frogmorton.
"I had no idea this place was here," Kevin said. "I've seen the house on the hill when I was hiking the Trail ... but ... never ... I mean never knew there was a village here ... and there's a bank. You mean your check would have been good?"
Sultry nodded.
John added, as he was walking on the ... road, trail, two track path to the house, "The army is visiting? Holy Shit! Is that a cannon? What's with all the the trucks? That's a pretty stained glass window. Pretty big house for just the two of you."
We marched into the armory just like it was home. Parker and Pipes suddenly suffered from a severe case of the stutters.
"I got just one question," Kevin blurted out, "Are those for real?"
He was looking at the swords. John was looking at them too ... but he was crying.
"Kevin, if we live to be a thousand years old ... we'll never see the like again." He started touching, "Amakuni Yasutsuna," He pointed, " ... and that's one of his too.
"Hikoshirō Sadamune." That sword was in a completely different direction. " ... his student, goshu takaki ju Sadamune. I'd know his work anywhere."
He touched another and quickly found it's partners, "Sōshū. This set is worth at least 12 million. It's complete ... never happened before."
He touched another on a chair, "This one is Toshiro Yoshimitsu, that's a Chokuto by Go Yoshihiro, Bizen Nagamitsu made that Tsurugi/Ken, and Ike Muramasa forged that Kodachi."
Pretty soon, there was a sergeant following along with a brass tag maker, making tags as fast as he could. The only difference in the tags was probable provenience by John Parker 1969
John was sorting them into sets and singles. A few pairs, but mostly sets and singles.
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