Varner's Store in "Hand upon the Waters" (Location)

Located "across the long flat where the highway began to parallel the river bottom," the store is described in this story as bustling with activity as a result of the inquest into Lonnie Grinnup's death: "ordinarily it would have been deserted, but now he could already see clotted about it the topless and battered cars, the saddled horses and mules and the wagons" (72).