Part 126 (2/2)

”Excuse me,” said Abigail as she cracked open the door.

”I saw you were off the line with Mr. Byers, and while you

were still fuming over him, I thought you might as well take

a look at these.” She held out several letters.

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”Let's get it over with,” said Maggie. ”Are they pretty

bad?”

Abigail frowned deeply. ”It appears that some business

owners think that bad development is better than no devel-

opment at all~specially when the weather isn't cooper-

ating.” She glanced out the window at the clear blue sky.

”Anyway, here's a real cranky one from Cal-no big surprise

there. That man has absolutely no taste anyway. And then

here's one from the hardware store owner. Of course, he'd

support something like this-he stands to profit from all

those irate homeowners beating a regular path to his door

for all their household repair items.”

Maggie chuckled over this as she fingered through the

small stack. ”Good point. It looks like we've got all the con-

tractors ganging up on us about this too. I'm sure they think L

with all the potential construction going on that they'll get a

piece of the pie. But the way Cohn Byers goes in for cheap

and sometimes illegal labor, I'm afraid they're barking up the

wrong tree.” She made a note. ”The next article should

probably address the whole labor issue more directly. That

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