The Phase Change on Exchange Alley
New York, October 1887 Cornelius Van der Hoven sat in his study on Exchange Alley and felt the heat building in his chest the way a boiler builds heat in a steam engine. He had been sitting there for thirty-six hours. His clerk had left the previous evening, pleading a headache, and Cornelius had not called him back. The ledgers could wait. The ledgers could always wait. This was different....
0 Commentarios 0 Acciones 1 Views 0 Vista previa