he passed the offices of the ford county times , the tea shoppe , which was only now coming to life , a haberdashery where he bought his suits on sale , a black-owned cafe called claude 's where he ate every friday with the other white liberals in town , an antiques store owned by a crook jake had sued twice , a bank still holding the second mortgage on his home and tied up in the same lawsuit , and a county office building where the new district attorney worked when he was in town .