CHAPTER 33 – TOM
CHICAGO“I’ve thought a lot about what you said the other day about the fear of being discovered. I think you felt that fear because of the initial shock of it all.”
He suspected that Clara was just trying to lessen his guilt, but he appreciated it nonetheless. It gave him the courage to continue his story.
“It’s true. The fear of being discovered came first, but then I couldn’t get the image out of my head of all the men that I had worked with over the past four years. All those faces that I saw every day, sometimes clean and bright, but more often smudged with soot, drenched with sweat… I wondered whether they sensed the danger coming, whether they had any way of knowing that the world was going to collapse on them? I prayed that they didn’t, but I knew that there was
