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Usually at the end of one of these late afternoon conferences with their chief patron Fred and Hilmer ended up by shaking for an early evening cocktail at Collins & Wheeland's, just around the corner. Hilmer always saw to it that Fred returned to the office with something for Helen a handful of ginger-snaps from the free-lunch counter, a ham sandwich, or a paper of ripe olives.
During the noon hour particularly it filtered through the midday tattle of business, pleasure, and obscenity at the Market, at Collins & Wheeland's, at Hjul's coffee house, at Grover's Lunchroom everywhere that clerks forgathered to appease their hunger and indulge in idle speculations.
As Fred Starratt came down the steps leading from the California Market with a bottle of oyster cocktails held gingerly before him he never remembered when he had been less in the mood for guests. A passing friend invited him to drop down for a drink at Collins & Wheeland's, but the state of his finances urged a speedy flight home instead.
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