At the Films Par Excellence studios she was announced over the telephone and told that Mr. Black would be down directly. She looked around her. Two girls were being shown about by a little fat man in a slash-pocket coat, and one of them had indicated a stack of thin parcels, piled breast-high against the wall, and extending along for twenty feet.
“That’s studio mail,” explained the fat man. “Pictures of the stars who are with ‘Films Par Excellence.’”
“Oh.”
“Each one’s autographed by Florence Kelley or Gaston Mears or Mack Dodge—”. He winked confidentially. “At least when Minnie McGlook out in Sauk Center gets the picture she wrote for, she thinks it’s autographed.”

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