He Sent Me Overseas to Marry Her, I'm Staying Overseas to Never See Him Again novel · Chapter 30 of 32
Chapter 30: First Collection
Four hundred cases by September was more than the arch had made in any year since 1990.
Peggy said so on Monday morning, at her bench, without looking up.
"Then we need more hands," I said.
"Hands cost money."
"I've got some money."
Peggy looked at me over her glasses for a long moment.
"Fifty-four million dollars of some," Oliver said, from the cutting table.
"Don't be vulgar," Peggy said. "Hire them, then. But I pick."
She picked hard.
The college down the road sent her eight students from its leather course, all eighteen or nineteen.
She sat each of them on the stool by her bench and handed them a handle and a needle.
Six of them she sent home before lunch.
She kept a tall quiet girl who didn't speak for a week.
And a boy who sang under his breath while he stitched.
"Terrible," Peggy told them both. "Not bad for a first."
Our two apprentices took them out for chips that night and taught them every word they knew.
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