| Show A LUCKY FIND title of a valuable watch eliat wa lost on nu this witch in itself is a valuable on faid a new york business man ii bo tool hn from the peculiar looking fob in shirli ho curriea it ant it ha 1 an that it a stall neater nc ater eulue to niu fob is an heirloom cud as you may sec would be apt to attract attention any buo ouo afternoon last week I 1 was po ing up town on a crowded train on tho sixth c elevated alio train was EO crowded that I 1 was compelled to egand on a car platform close to th brake wheel As tho train aug thal curve out of west third 1 took my watch from pocket removed it froin tho fob and alter noting the time shoved it back into the fob and returned it as I 1 thought to tho rocket instead of getting it into tho pocket however it was on the outside and as I 1 let it go it fell tha guard saw it as it fell and readied out his foot to save it from going between the platforms bat failed and down it went 1 I got off the train at eighth and ran back as fast as I 1 could to the spot where tho watch had dropped having I 1 may of course say not the slightest chopo that tho watch would be to bo seen when I 1 reached the place my heart almost jumped out of my throat for there in tho street conspicuous among ita surroundings lay the fob I 1 picked it up it vaa empty no watch could I 1 find anywhere some ono has found it waa naturally my conclusion and that was the last I 1 ever expected to hear or seo of it but as I 1 walked back toward the eighth street station I 1 got to thinking about tho matter differently it anyone bad found the watch why should lie have left tho fob the more I 1 thought of it the more I 1 made up my mind that tho watch been found 1 board cd a train at eighth street and went up own to tho railroad headquarters there J told of the singular thing that had happened to my watch and the officer in charge told me that after the commission licurs liours were over for tho day the track walkers would start from fifty ninth street down the line making thir regular inspection of and roadway and he would instruct thein to keep an eye out for the lost watch 1 said he smiling 1 I guess you will have to come to the conclusion all that some one else will tell the time by it hereafter if it been smashed to pieces by the fall next day 1 went to the office my watch was there A track walker had discovered it by the light of his torch at midnight lying snugly on one of the girders or braces of the iron roadway beneath the track the ring was sprung conf of its fastening in tho stem and the watch was open there was a dent ou tho caso at tho hinge in falling the watch had struck in some mysterious way so that it had been forced from the fob went on down to the street beyond alio trifling damage I 1 tho watch was not injured in the slight ft if there ever was a luckier than eliat I 1 never heard of it york |
