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Show GREED MET PROPER REBUKE j Incident on Street Car a Case of Righteous Retribution and Some Embarrassment. The day was stormy and the ear carried only a limited number of passengers. pas-sengers. The Woman Who Saw spied a shining coin glistening on the floor, just : . front t -j. fashionably dressed woman who might have posed for a "Dally Hint From Paris," so faultless fault-less was her get rp, despite the rainy day. Everytt ; bespoke affluence and reckless expenditure, and the necessity ne-cessity to add to her probable store of ready money was not apparent. However, she was eyeing the coin as a cat does a mouse, ready to pounce on it at the first favorable opportunity. oppor-tunity. Simultaneously the gaze of a dapper elderly gentleman, seated next the Woman Who Saw, lighted upon the glittering object. It would have been an easy matter to have stooped and possessed himself of it, but the eagle eye of his fellow passenger followed fol-lowed his every movement, belying her desire to appropriate the teted prize. After a few seconds of tieso-lution tieso-lution he reached down and lrtutmlly grabbed the lucky find. Openlnf his closed hand he took one glance at the treasure. A peculiar expression crossed his face, and his fingers closed tightly again. This was too much tor the well-dressed woman, who could restrain re-strain herself no longer; greed took possession of her, and leaning forward for-ward she addressed the finder in icy accents : "Pardon me, sir, that belongs to me. I just dropped it." With a courteous bow the gentleman replied: "Permit me to restore your property, madam," and he placed in the immaculate gloved hand, now eagerly extended, a shining tobacco tag. |