WHAT PREVENTED.
He had been stopping at an hotel for a day or two, seemingly unnoticed by any of the clerks or employees, and it struck him so queerly that he sat down beside a man who appeared to be a guest, and said, "Good many of us here?" "Yes," "Some going and some coming all the timer "Yes." "I don't see why I couldn't walk out and take tho train for home without paying my bill." The other made no reply, and after a minute the first one continued—"What. is to prevent me from jumping my bill, as I have no luggage?" Oh nothing much, except that I'm engaged here as a spotter, and have had my eyes on you ever since you registered." _ Ten minutes later the stranger paid his bill up to the next day noon, bnt he continued to carry the look of a man who'd like to kick somebody.— Detroit Free Press.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1764, 18 August 1884, Page 2
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157WHAT PREVENTED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1764, 18 August 1884, Page 2
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