The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-04-15
ms IfST TRIP ARCTND TOW.


He bad been in New Nork two weeks. lie
came 10 see IN" town md he had been up against
about every gam in II and 10 use his own eN-
rr 's>iun he had been done b. 'em all" 10
hear him ton it, you'd think that every crook In
town had been lying in wait for him and had
got everything away that h" happened to have
In lis possession at the time of the meeting Right
in the Jump hr had been robbed II every cen,
If money t'at ne brought with him and all the
sympathy he got from the clerk # Tie hotel was
an lncredulou~ Smll" and a suggestion that il
was customary for the hotel 10 present It's hills
daily He sent home for moro money and %,
il, after that " h'n ne went ont he never took with
him more than $40 So that his losses each nigh,
wrr. confined to that sum
His experiences each night taught him wisdom
and on Saturday might when he started ont for
his last MP around town u was with a bland
expression on hi, face and a vad # soft tissue
paper in his plcNeL 1t was f"ll,l and rolled
up so that it felt like a roll Of bills lie walked
UP Fourth avenue to Twenty third street, across
TErntv-thIrd street To- broadway and then turned
down on the W"St side Of the street You will
remember that along about Nineteenth and
TwrnG'th street Hrradway on the vest alo
j. rather dark. Well, he had lust reached this
dark SPOT when she hApp'ned by. She wa,
ON. u Those women who are occasionally en-
c"Dnl"rtd AMI VII" max" q business Of picking
tn" pocket 81 any one foolish enough t. Stop tI
lhiYE the game is worth 1t they Will Try the badger
gam" Of course it was natltal that he shuuld
sp'aN t. her and ii was natural that she. pro
f., iag fear that She might he seen talking Win
q stranger BY some one who knew her and v %
would report II her moth"r and father, should
suggest that thei st"pln the shadow ~ The nearest
hallway where She wouldn't he recognized They
went IL told her he was a stranger in the city
She said s' vas a toacA"r He void her he liked
her looks and she said she liked him but her pa-
rents We're 50 strict They stood very close h..
grther 80 that the shadow might shield thom
both and he felt The wad "f soft tissue paper 81. D
ping quietly, s,ealthily from his pocket She
chartered Ike q maggie He smiled sartoni-
cHlly Finally he said he'd meet her the next
day after she was through work and she said
shed tell ma sh" was going 10 see her cousin.
That would make q good excuse Tor not going
straight home They shook hands They both
said Vow don't forget"
when thp promruahers on Broadway were startled
BY a female shrek and a frantic yell Of Stop
him thlrf' thief
He sid around the first corner.
thief Thief she screamed.
The policeman from the corner above hustled
down the street The pedestrians all ran to where
she was standing She held the nice fat roll
Of tisSr" paper in her hand.
What sit' Where is he"' they derended.
Just at that moment she caught sight # the
blu" cont pushing through the crowd Then
81" realized the situation oh it's nothing.
she gasped and she slid through hat crowd and
was away even quicker than re had Sid Arouud
tla corner Some one piCEed up the fat sof
roll of eiSSu" pAprr she had dropped The police
MAJ ttDk il Hr looked at IT. His fec" broke
into a Aroei grin. Then it dawned on the crowd
aud they all grinned
What's thr Use of a%rresting hcr," said the
policeman. Their" %worldn,' b" any complainant"
A. for him he made his way back a. the hote
and told the story. The clerk toll him Conde
spnlingly that he was learning.