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With a window open and scratch-pad handy, the keen-eared scribe at his desk in our offices can hardly fail to pick up every scrap of town information between sunrise and dusk.... Of course, in winter the supply's not so good. Winter before last we all suffered with colds acquired through keeping the windows open; and last winter our circulation fell off surprisingly through keeping them closed.
And at last he got the information he sought. Consulting a railroad folder, he found a train schedule that caused him to look at his watch. "Twenty-five minutes," he figured. "I'm going!" He telephoned for a cab. Then, seating himself at the table, he tore a sheet from a scratch-pad and wrote: "Don't lose sight of Mrs. Brace. Disregard Russell's arrest.
The ten is yours for a copy o' that telegram." The operator seized a scratch-pad, copied the telegram and cautiously "slipped" it to Mr. Hennage, who as cautiously "slipped" her the ten- dollar bill. He was rewarded for his prodigality by the following: R. P. McKeon, Mills Building, Sacramento, Calif. Advise our friend approve McGraw applications at once. Letter follows.
Wrenn lay, with a scratch-pad on his raised knees and a small mean pillow doubled under his head, writing sample follow-up letters to present to the Souvenir and Art Novelty Company, interrupting his work at intervals to add to a list of the books which, beginning about five minutes after he landed in New York, he was going to master. He puzzled over Marie Corelli.
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