Question

mr a ward, dear sir - 1 well, i called on good - natured, garrulous old simon wheeler, and i inquired after your friend leonidas w smily, as you requested me to do, and i hereunto append the result. if you can get any information out of it you are cordially welcome to it. i have a lurking suspicion that your leonidas w smily is a myth - that you never knew such a personage, and that you only conjectured that if i asked old wheeler about him it would remind him of his infamous jim smily, and he would go to work and bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscences of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me. if that was your design, mr ward, it will gratify you to know that it succeeded. 2 i found simon wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom stove of the old dilapidated tavern in the ancient mining camp of boomerang, and i noticed that he was fat and bald - headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. he roused up and gave me good - day. i told him a friend of mine had commissioned me to make some inquiries about a cherished companion of his boyhood named leonidas w smily - rev leonidas w smily - a young minister of the gospel, who he had heard was at one time a

Explanation:

The narrator called on Simon Wheeler to inquire about Rev Leonidas W Smily as requested by Mr A Ward. Simon Wheeler is the person the narrator visited.

Answer:

B. Simon Wheeler