Robert Jordan unpinned a safety pin that ran through his pocket flap and took a folded paper out of the left breast pocket of his flannel shirt and handed it to theman, who openedit, looked at it doubtfully and turned it in his hands.
There, as a symbol it could be done, was 81-year-old Maurice Reeves, theman whose family furniture shop was reduced to ashes in last Summer's riots and who this year re-opened it.