But he worked.
The Souvenir Company salesmen had not been able to get from the
South the business which the company deserved if right and
justice were to prevail. On the steamer from England Mr. Wrenn
had conceived the idea that a Dixieland Ink-well, with the
Confederate and Union flags draped in graceful cast iron, would
make an admirable present with which to draw the attention of
the Southem trade. The ink-well was to be followed by a series
of letters, sent on the slightest provocation, on order or
re-order, tactfully hoping the various healths of the Southland
were good and the baseball season important; all to insure a
welcome to the salesmen on the Southem route.
He drew up his letters; he sketched his ink-well; he got up the
courage to talk with the office manager.... To forget love and
the beloved, men have ascended in aeroplanes and conquered
African tribes. To forget love, a new, busy, much absorbed Mr.
Wrenn, very much Ours, bustled into Mr. Guilfogle's office,
slapped down his papers on the desk, and demanded: "Here's that
plan about gettin' the South interested that I was telling you
about.
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