"Yeah, "Solomon said, "In December Jesse told us she was expecting him. Where is Jesse now?"
"She's in a safe place on Rivington Street."
"Are you sure of what you’re doing, Bernard? Are we in control here? Are we?"
"Yes. Let me go on. Jesse reminded me her dad was due to come here about now. I called up Clement's place outside Detroit, pretended I was from the NYU administration, calling about Jesse and I was told he had left for
New York, could be reached at the Plaza Hotel. I called Jesse and told her I was going to have to give her father her number, make up some excuse why she was not in the dorms. And the old man doesn't know she's pregnant."
"You called Clement, you called Jesse’s father here in New York?"
"Yeah, I called him at the Plaza. Got him on the phone, he seemed prett
