" There was
no end to the "societies and lodges and stuff" he was going to
join directly he landed.
At Liverpool he suddenly stopped at a post-box and mailed his
card to Istra. That ended his debate. Of course after that he
had to go back to America.
He sailed exultantly, one month and seventeen days after leaving
Portland.
CHAPTER XII
HE DISCOVERS AMERICA
In his white-painted steerage berth Mr. 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. Morton liked
Miss Corelli so much; but would her works appeal to Istra Nash?
He had worked for many hours on a letter to Istra in which he
avoided mention of such indecent matters as steerages and
immigrants. He was grateful, he told her, for "all you learned
me," and he had thought that Aengusmere was a beautiful place,
though he now saw "what you meant about them interesting
people," and his New York address would be the Souvenir Company.
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