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Show THERlf WA.S NO TO, ft. But He Had Abundant Reason Neverth less to Be Suspicion. There was a bright new 50 cent piect lying on the pavement on Jefferson av enue, near, Grit-wold street, when a bow backed man with a satchel cam along from the depot He saw the coin while he was yet 20 feet away, and he made a sudden forward rush to get it, The movement was almost instantly checked, however, and he walked slowly slow-ly forward and backed to the curbstone and stood there and gazed at the coin 7ith a foxy look on his countenance. In about a minute a pedestrian came np, saw the coin and reached for it and put It in his pocket Observing the attitude of the old man at the same time he turned and queried: "It didn't belong to you, did it?" ""Waal, I swan!" was tho reply. "What's tho matter?" "This is the queerest durned town 1 ever struck in all my Ufa I was coming np this btrcct last year about this time when I saw a 50 cent piece lyin jest about hera I made a grab fur it fell on my nose and rolled all over and finally final-ly got np to find that a boy had a6tring od tho money and had pulled it into that doorway." "And so you were shy of thi3 one?' "Yaas, I was shy." "And are half a dollar behind the game?" "Yaas, I'm half a dollar ont Say, are you in a .'ry?" 4 Yes great hurry. ' ' "Wall, I'll hev to find somebody else then. I want to find a feller who'll sot down with me fur about two hours and post mo up. I'm comin into Detroit onco a week now, and I want to find oul what's got strings to it and what's lyin around loose and kin be picked up. " Detroit Free Press. |