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Their buyer
was drunk!"
It was done. And now would he be discharged? The manager
was speaking:
"Probably. You looked it up, eh? Um! Send me in the two
order-records. Well. But, anyway, I want you to be more
careful after this, Wrenn. You're pretty sloppy. Now get out.
Expect me to make firms pay twice for the same order, cause of
your carelessness?"
Mr. Wrenn found himself outside in the dark corridor.
The manager hadn't seemed much impressed by his revolt.
The manager wasn't. He called a stenographer and dictated:
"Bronx Emporium:
"GENTLEMEN:--Our Mr. Wrenn has again (underline that `again,'
Miss Blaustein), again looked up your order for May Day novelties.
As we wrote before, order certainly was duplicated by 'phone.
Our Mr. Wrenn is thoroughly reliable, and we have his records
of these two orders. We shall therefore have to push
collection on both--"
After all, Mr. Wrenn was thinking, the crafty manager might be
merely concealing his hand. Perhaps he had understood the defiance.


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