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 .
