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Show TWO COINCIDENCE STOniEO. Told In llooil r.llli In llao Vfti.ro Alt Uomtnrlnx llatr.d. Chicago Inter Ocean It waa the secretary' sec-retary' turn tu tell a yarn to his fellow-members of the Coincidence club The Coincidence club, by the way, has no cumbersome, machinery It haa membera and officers, meets once a week to tell queer stories along the line suggested by Ita name, and everything every-thing but the strict truth Is barred 'I've got two stories, much alike, to tell "There s nothing dramatic or aen-aatlonal aen-aatlonal about them They struck me as queer, though You know I'm a lawyer One day a man named Dodge brought In a letter uf Introduction to me from a friend out west Ha had a Imple aort of a cate and I aaked him to come back at 3 o clock that afternoon after-noon Then 1 went over to tht criminal crim-inal court an buirlneei that kept ms till within a few minute ot 3 o'clock A I entered my office there waa a man sitting In tbe shsdow Without realty looking at him, and with my mind full of the appointment I said, ai I went to my private offleo 'How are you, Mr Dodger I'll aee joii In a minute' min-ute' Pretty soon 1 rang and told tha office boy to ahow In Mr Dodge Tha man came In and he wasn't my Mr. tXdge at all Imagine my surprise When hft antil 'llnw AiA vnn Vnnw tnv name!' At the tame time he handed me a teller of Introduction from a friend down eait Hit name wnaDodga all right, and he had a case I gasped over the oddity ot the situation, explained ex-plained Iho coincidence to my visitor, and even ahowed him the other letter of Introduction Ilut the nun did not believe me He evidently thought I waa a liar, and left without putting hit cat In my handa A few mlnutei liter In came the flrat Mr Dodge, and we had a good laugh over It Th other coincidence wat thli 1 got letters from two friend. one wett of Chicago and one aouth, asking me to collect claims against a big Chicago firm and a big Insurance company with an agency agen-cy In Chicago I telephoned and madt appointment with representatives ol each of the concerns one at 12 and tht other at 12 30 o'clock I wapt out on an errand and waa delayed until 12 30 (i clock When I came in both mtn were waiting Strange aa It may teem, both men were named Itote I Introduced Intro-duced them Ono wat originally from Ilhode liland and tho other from Connecticut Con-necticut At far aa they could figure out they were not related I've uted false names, but otherwise the ttorlet are itrlctly true, and can be proven by evidence that will pan mutter In a court of law" |