The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-08-14
SUSPICIOUS CUSTOMER.
sale OF y High Priced Diamond That Wa.
Noa Completed.

80 No9 bAoNoo-
Yes" smiled the good looking
and we'll dressed clerk in Wash
ington jewelry store. there are
tricks in our trade as well as in 9TH
ers."
I'm really surprised, 4" responded
the reporter, who had never bought
more than - worth of jewelry-
that is, fine jewelry-in his hfa
''How can there be?''
I'm various ways and one of
those ways iE the marking up of
goods on display. Otter lines of
business draw trade by marking
them up For instance. we viii put
q jewel or some rich article on dis
play which may be worth as much
as 1000 or $4,000. and We viii
mark il eiO. 900. That draws people
somehow, for they do like 20 sec big
figures. AS to paying that sort Of a
price, that is quite a different mat
ter. People who are paying those
big prices don't pay them until they
know they are getting their mon
ey's worth as near as may be. They
are painfully suspicious, too. and
are constantly ON the lookout not 70
be caught in any kind Of trap
II remember some years ago
had charge of . jewelry store for
the summer at n swell resort, and
next door to rs was another New
York firm, whose reputation was
not as good as our own, owing to
the fact that they catered 20 the
flash trade, while ours was quiet
and swell. They had in their win
dow a big diamond for display
marked 81. 500. and one day rich
woman whom / knew was attracted
by it and wanted TO get it for her
husband.
She was sharp woman. not
withstanding she was rich, and she
knew that she could get the stone
for less money and proceeded to do
IL in the easiest way. This was TO
make a plump offer for IL, and she
went in and laid down $500 on the
counter and said IL they wanted TO
exchange the stone for the money
now was the chance and that il
must be done at once.
THE clsrk hemmed and hawed
awhile, but OF last agreed TO trade
He then took the stone down TO the
other end of the store behind the
l counter, stopping n moment to speak
I 10 the clerk, and came up 10 the Ia
dy on the outside of the counter
with the stone in his hand. She
I looked at him sus iciously as he
held the stone out TO her and shook
her head. i don't want IL. she
said. I'm rs sharp as you are. and ]
would have taken it II you had
handed it TO me across the counter,
but don't want il now. That end
ed the trade, and the woman left
The lady told me this part of the
story herself. and / felt sure that
the clerk had done just what she
suspected him of doing, and that be
had changed the stone on his way
around the counter. Later / saw one
of the clerks and asked him about
it. He was mad all over and was not
choice of the epithets he applied to
the clerk, who had really acted
square in tho matter and had only
stopped TO tell the other olerk of bis
good luck in making q $500 sale.
The proprietor was hot. too. for,
Notwithstanding the price was
81, 900 under what the diamond was
marked, there was still a oomforta.
BILE profit in it. As TO the lady, she
was beyond explanation, and to this
day ! presume that she thinks that
jeweler tried to bunko her and did
not simply because she was too sharI
for him. "-Washington Star.