Show adventure adventures of thousand franc note A lady passing down the ruo rich elleu had bad the misfortune to lose a pocketbook containing among other I 1 bables a 1000 franc frane note tho the pocketbook was picked up by a chair mender named renaud who lives at Mont reaux and he placed it very carefully in his pocket and r home it Is not often that e chair mender has occasion to change a note tor for that amount and renaud recognizing the impossibility of turning it into gold without detection agreed with a friend to do the business for the consideration of francs this friend lucien Nl mathern athern aldo also a chair mender was in bis his turn filled with apprehension the difficulty was solved by the aid of a horticulturist named Sim monnet who kindly con dented to buy himself a horse for francs and return the change renaud thus became richer by francs all might have gone well if two days i later it had not been discovered that the horse horise had been stolen from a deal cr or ht meaux this led to the arres t of the trio and later in the day the police put their hands on the horse thieves paris messenger |