The following Tuesday morning, Clara received an urgent telephone call from Samuel Cooper, the seventy-year-old general manager of the Montgomery Shipyards in Brooklyn. "Clara! My God, child, what did you do?!" Samuel’s voice cracked with astonished, weeping joy through the speaker. Clara sat up straight at her kitchen island, her brow furrowing with alarm. "Samuel, what happened? Did the city marshal show up with the padlocks?!" "No! Just the opposite!"…
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