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Show LEAVES SUITCASE AS NOTICE. Repentant Prodigal Walts to Be Sure of His Reception. This story may bo true, then again It may not. A generally truthful person per-son told it to mo and named a prominent promi-nent man as tho main character In it. Ho says this man, sober and Industrious Indus-trious man at homo, is accustomed at times to let tho strain relax, takes a trip and forgets his troubles. It is his method of home-coming that makes tho story. Ho is always uncertain uncer-tain about his reception at his own fireside, so ho carefully unlocks the tront door, places his suitcase in the hall, retires to tho porch, rings the bell and then crosses tho street anil remains there with eyes fixed on tho door. If, after a wait of considerable time, nothing dovelqps ho lets himself into his home. But if the suitcase Is propelled from tho 'door with sufficient suf-ficient force to send it into tho street with the person who sent It there concealed, tho man picks it up and goes away on another trip. This process pro-cess ho keeps up until the suitcase Is allowed to remain in the house, although al-though ho may havo to make five or six trips hand running before the suitcase suit-case remains undisturbed. Exchange. |