For several weeks he had been worried by a strange silence on the part of the newspaper storiette syndicate .

很奇怪，报纸小故事供应社一连几个星期默不作声，令他十分烦恼。

He signed the new contract , inserting " the smoke of joy " in the blank space , and mailed it back to the publishers along with the twenty storiettes he had written in the days before he discovered the formula for the newspaper storiette .

他签署了新的合同，在空白处填上了《欢的轻烟》，寄给了出版人，又把他早在发现写作报纸小小说的公式之前写的二十篇小小说一起寄了去。