Gompers was walking to the corner shop when he ran into Charles. He spotted him from the kind of distance where it was too far away to say hello and just far enough away to come up with a good insult when you were finally in range. He saw that Charles was walking a dog, which was a new development. Historically Gompers wouldn’t have trusted Charles with…
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