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Show KNEW BETTER THAN TO IN8IST. Conductor Willing to Miss Fare Un-dsr Un-dsr the Circumstances. Thero was a dotcrmlnod-looklng woman on tho far end of tho seat of L tho car, and no tho conductor began to pass along the running board to collect his fares tho colonel got out IiIb own nickel and nsked tho woman It ho should pass hors. "Ho'll got no nickel from mo," was her brusquo roply. , "Excuse mo, but I thought you had to pay." m "Woll, you watch out and seo whether I havo to or not. If I do then thoro'll bo such a row on this car as you haven't seen for a year." Tho conductor camo along and tho colonel handod ovor his faro and watched. Tho man stood for a moment mo-ment looking tho woman In tho faco, and sho returned tho look without flinching. Thon ho Boomed to sigh as he passed on. "Didn't I toll you so!" chuckled tho woman. "Ho must havo suspocted that you woro ready for a row," answered tho " colonol. "You hot ho did. I told him last night what to expoct." "Oh, thon you know him?" "Know him? Ho's my own husband nnd ho wanted his own wlfo to pay faro so that ho could knock It down. Not any for Mary I" S |