A BAIT FOR PARES.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 119, 15 November 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

A BAIT FOR PARES.

The young man walked by the harisom, took a quick lrfok at the interior of the vehicle, hesitated for a moment, and walked on a few, paces, He halted on the edge of the kerb, and seemed to be considering some deep < problem. The driver perched on the back -of the modern chariot was scanning the horizon in search of a prospective, fare. The joung man gulped down a swelling in his throat, and approached the hansom from the rear. He took another glance at the interior of the vehicle, and asked nervously : •'How much to — cr — Spencer-street?" "Half a crowni" said the cabby, with duo disiegard to legal rate's. . "All right Go ahead quick," said the young man, clambering into the hansom.' Arriving at' Spencer-strest the young man nervously thrust the fare into cabby's hand/ and disappeared in i^e big terminus. ' ' Aad cabby surveyed the ulterior of the.

hansom and smiled From one of the capacious pockets of his coat he produced a cheap wallet stuffed with paper and bound by stout elastic. This he deposited carefully on the scat in plain, view o* passers-by. „ "That's the fourth gudgeon to-day, ha ! solilonuised, as he clambered to his perch. "Them pocket-books cost me fourpeuce apiece, an' it's a lot of trouble to stuff 'em an' to' make 'em look natural, bufc they do bring trade. Gee up !"