Show SOME ODSUllT 1 STORlfS iORT The lady or the Conductor Chicago TimesHerald The conductor on a Madison street I cable had taken up the fares and was posing on his end of the car when n man approached him and pointing to a woman in one of the front seats asked See that woman Yess1 answered the official in the I customary surly tone What of her I bet you a dollar that If you ask I her for her fare again shell pay it Not much Its hard work to get one fare out of women passengers let alone two aone Bet you a dollar The conductor looked Uneasy Id get fired he said and lose my job The woman would report me No she wouldnt That woman Ism Is-m wife and I want to get off a joke on her shes so absentminded Go ahead and win the bet All right said the conductor and as he passed through the car he stopped in front of the passenger and held out his hand Fare please He had an apology on the tip of his tongue but after one glance at him the woman said Oh and opened her pocketbook produced a nickel which she laid in his hand He went back to the man who had prompted him and said There Ive won the bet Ill bet you another dollar that you can collect fare n third time said the man I The blood of the conductor was upI up-I never take a dare he said but if you werent her husband Id see you I further before Id risk her catching meat me-at i He waited until the cars had gone on six blocks further and some new passengers sengers boarded them when he collected collect-ed their fare and held out his hand to the absendmlnded woman Fare please She looked at him in a dazed way Havent I paid my fare How funny and searching in her pocketbook she him found another nickel and gave I to Wiping the perspiration from his hardened brow the conductor went I back to the man on the platform Give these to your wife he said I havent any right to them and he laid two nickels in the mans had and Ill take my 2 But lit didnt The man swung himself him-self off the car and disappeared un aside a-side street and now the conductor would give 2 to know whether he was worked for the price of a drink and If the woman was hypnotized or If It wa 1 bet between two outside parties or anrwar what sort of a putup scheme I was |