Our Mr. Wrenn

TO GRACE LIVINGSTONE HEGGER

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CHAPTER I
MR. WRENN IS LONELY

The ticket-taker of the Nickelorion Moving-Picture Show is a public personage,who stands out on Fourteenth Street, New York, wearing a gorgeous light-bluecoat of numerous brass buttons. He nods to all the patrons, and his nod is themost cordial in town. Mr. Wrenn used to trot down to Fourteenth Street, passingever so many other shows, just to get that cordial nod, because he had a lonelyfurnished room for evenings, and for daytime a tedious job that always made hishead stuffy.

He stands out in the correspondence of the Souvenir and Art Novelty Company as“Our Mr. Wrenn,” who would be writing you directly and explainingeverything most satisfactorily. At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entryclerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always bending over bills and columns offigures at a desk behind the stock-room. He was a meek little bachlor—aperson of inconspicuous blue ready-made suits, and a small unsuccessfulmustache.

To-day—historians have established the date as April 9, 1910—therehad been some confusing mixed orders from the Wisconsin retailers, and Mr.Wrenn had been “called down” by the office manager, Mr. Mortimer R.Guilfogle. He n

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