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Wrenn with:
"Classy bunch of cattlemen we've got to go with. Not!... My
name's Morton."
"I'm awful glad to meet you, Mr. Morton. My name's Wrenn."
"Glad to be off at last, ain't you?"
"Golly! I should say I _am!_"
"So'm I. Been waiting for this for years. I'm a clerk for the
P. R. R. in N' York."
"I come from New York, too."
"So? Lived there long?"
"Uh-huh, I--" began Mr. Wrenn.
"Well, I been working for the Penn. for seven years now. Now
I've got a vacation of three months. On me. Gives me a chance
to travel a little. Got ten plunks and a second-class ticket
back from Glasgow. But I'm going to see England and France just
the same. Prob'ly Germany, too."
"Second class? Why don't you go steerage, and save?"
"Oh, got to come back like a gentleman. You know. You're from
New York, too, eh?"
"Yes, I'm with an art-novelty company on Twenty-eighth Street.
I been wanting to get away for quite some time, too.... How are
you going to travel on ten dollars?"
"Oh, work m' way.


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