Forty Thousand Dollars and the Deed to Maple Avenue Bakery

deed by signing that secondary mortgage note personally.”

“She didn’t want Beatrice to know how bad the divorce had been,” I said, sitting down on the edge of the armchair.

“So she carried the debt herself,” Arthur said. “She took the risk so we would not have to.”

I looked at the photocopy of the mortgage, the signature of Clara’s ex-husband looking continue reading …