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Ambrose opened the first one. It read:

Love and Danger is the world's most exalting message to humanity today stop I have viewed it and reviewed it each time with increasing awe stop it seems to me more than an achievement by man alone stop mere congratulations are not adequate to express appreciation of such artistic work stop in all my years of experience I never have witnessed such a triumph

Abie Girstein

Silently passing this benign message on to Georgiana he sighed as he slit a second envelope. The contents read:

Please wire two thousand word story your triumph tonight stop your own terms

A third:

I knew you could do it stop offer you double for next story

Griesheimer

A fourth:

Come and see me tomorrow stop write your own contract

Lee Schwarzstein

Another:

You can do anything stop offer you job of manager my factory stop salary fifty thousand to begin

Abel Morris

Georgiana made a gesture of distaste.

Don't open any more of those beastly things, she