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Show a mammm 1 HE WON HIS BET. But It Was Iarlnf Hrheuia and Hardly Worth the Trouble. I heard the other day a good story which my informant believes to be true. I give it for what it is worth, says a writer in the New York Mar. A young man about town made a bet of $.000 that ho could visit a number of fashionable receptions on a single afternoon and carry off t-jOO worth of silverware. According to the terms of the bet he was not to visitany house where he was known. He merely picked out a list of receptions from a society paper, called a cab and started on his predatory expedition. At the first house he was about to take a silver-mounted brush from the men's dressing-room when an application of the teeth convinced him that t e article arti-cle was not worth the risk. Accordingly Accord-ingly he dropped the brush and contented con-tented himself witn some otherarticle. He visited three or four places, aud at each took something of value. Finally, just after he bad slipped several spoons into his pocket at one place a big man with a heavy mustache said , to him: "Have you everything you want?-' Affecting to understand the other to refer to the eatables, he of the bet answered: "Yes; thank you. I'll not eat anything more." When the young man left the house, his questioner, who was a detective, de-tective, saw him got into the cab and heard the instructions given to the driver. When the maker of the bet arrived at the next house, he went to the dressing-room and promptly began pocketing silver. But in the midst of this the detective emerged from under the bod and attempted to arrest the supposed thief. The latter, however, being an athlete, shook off the detective, detec-tive, tripped him up, and whon those In the house reached the scone, succeeded suc-ceeded in persuading every one that the detective was tlio guilty man. This accomplished, the younjr man hastened home, did up his plunder in packages addressed to tho owners, and sent each home by a messenger boy, cautioned to deliver his package and answer no questions. The audacious auda-cious young man won the bet and escaped arrest. |
