Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-02


your she almost shriekrd through the
phone. treasured her.
well. am glad you had enough sense
to turn him down. she said. hatteringly
We had spat last night. and from a word
or two that he let fall thought that he
morning. the mean thing, Don't you dare
let him have It. Don't let anybody redeem
1t but mel have the ticket
Il told her that end OF II would be all
right, and could almost see the express
sion OF triumph on her face through the
phone.
shaken up around here by that time. but
the days liveliness was only beginning
Shortly before noon a man and O woman
both dressed to the nines. strolled In. They
both wore sort Of constrained look. The
man was very attentive to the woman.
holding the door open for her very elabor-
rately and solicitously conducting her to
one Of the private booths. But could dis
Germ that the woman was thinking a-plenty.
all the same. Still carrying herself In that
reluctant style. she produced a number OF
Jewel cases from the hand satchel which
she carried. and handed the cases to me.
I thought she seemed to be az some unusual
pains to place the Jewel case In my hands
herself rather than allow, the man with
her to perform that ONCE for her.
Could Not Give Up the Jewels.
IT opened the cases. and the stun was
| very fine and beautiful. There were four
| solitaire rings, all gems OF the highest
grade. q couple Of choice diamond stick
pins and a pair Of superb solitaire earrings.
Roughly. 1 should say the stuff. all of the
| very supreme quality. was worth $4,000;
1--WE want a couple OF thousand on the
stuff for short time the man said to me,
| nervously Juggling at his mustache
Your wifes stuff?' 1 said to him-for
like to get men OF a certain appearance on
YES he replied, my wife's. We want
two thousand
the time, and the regret that fingered about
her eyes as she saw me tumble the 1eweiry
was something curious to study
"'Shall / make the ticket out In your
name or in your wife's name?' asked the
Long experience in this business told
me that the woman was on the point OF
| crawfishing on the whole propos't,on. a anu
LET me see the things again, she saio
to me after had put my question. and her
voice was hoarse and had break In ~.
I deposited the jewel cases In her TWO
hands. She instantly opened her mana
satchel and clapped the jewel cases IN
there again.
mo. my dear she said to the man with
her. I shall not let the things get away
| from me- and while her voice quavered
there was nevertheless certain hrm tone
| in its timbre. I have changed my m,nd
It is SO much easier to put things In than
have you play the market! No. shall
| not do It. I can't do It. Please don ask
me any more. I shall not
! ''The man looked very sore, but he was
! obviously making an effort to control hlm-
self; T., ,ou ,on.
| this thing is a cinch. Amalgamated Cop
per is going to boom today nave II
straight. It's going up ten points-cer-
tainly, I can more than clean up enough
today to get all Of the things out In the
morninP-this afternoon, maybe.
Stuck to Her Resolution.
"'No, my dear she said again. there's
no use asking me. I'd do almost anything
else for YOU but can't stand to lose my
jewelry in this foolish way-all gone in
few minutes in Q bucket shop. Oh, no.
don't ask me. When could you ever get
II out again IL the market went against
you again-as it always does? The interest
on the things would be running on Tor
years and years Think what the market
playing mania has cost you-both OF US
already
II liked that woman-liked her foresight
and sense and the way she talked.
az guess the lady's pretty close to right.
friend said to the man, feeling like plug
ging his wife's view along bit. The
market is a mighty uncertain proposition
and then he turned upon me with savage
scowl. but I didn't mind that.
He tried to argue her out of her de-
termination to keep her clutch on her orna-
firmly and once for all when she had seen
me handling her priced possessions. and
she declined to be swayed by his argument
that Amalgamated Copper was a cinch buy.
He didn't hold the door open for her when
they went out. I noticed.
But the day wasn't finished yet. Dur
ing the afternoon a MISUNDERSTANDING wo-
man came in and tried to work very old
and raw one on us.
"On the day before she had telephoned to
us to send one Of our men to her hotel
tto hot Tho Chn I'D
a fine diamond sunburst. worth 5000 easily.
my man told me, and he had told her
that the $500 she wanted could be loaned
livery WE'LL she said to him at the hotel,
I shall bring the sunburst down to your
establishment tomorrow. / must ask my
husband this evening II he is willing that
1 should temporarily pledge the article
"Wcll, yesterday afternoon, as I say,
she stepped out Of a swell automobile and
called for the young man who had visited
her at the hotel on the day before. The
young man came forth and she handed
him the case containing the sunburst-
rather. a notwithstanding:
" 1T is all right. My husband is agree
able, and you may let me have the 81, 5O0.'
Handed the Case Back.
"My young man isn't so young as he
looks, however-few young men in the
pawnbroking business are. for that mat
ter-and so he just snapped the case open
take a peek at 1t. I observed that the
fashiona ble-looking woman appeared to be
pretty uneasy when she saw him do that.
You see she had figured that the young
man would be SO flabbergasted over her
beauty and grace that he wouldn't think
of examining the sunburst again before
handing her the amount Of the loan But.
of course, he did examine 1t. We don't
take citrons in this business wh.-e we're
wide awake. He snapped the case to and
handed 1t back to her over the counter.
mot a bad copy. madam was all he
said to her, and with very red face. but
without q word, she took the sunburst
case out of his hands, hastily gathered up
her skirts and hurried out to the auto
mobile.
Pretty raw, wasn't it, for even an un-
usually pretty woman to imagine that she
could get by with an old one like that?
The sunburst that she had brought wasn't
the real one at all, of course-just a clever
replica in good paste. It's humilating to
know that some of them take us for such
easy marks. but that's the sort of thing.
with variations. that they're trying on all
the time at pawnshops.
THAT wound up the days incidents. and
now the whole game. as always happens
in pawnshops. will simmer down to the old
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