JUST DO

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6494, 14 April 1908, Page 2

JUST DO

She was a nervous-looking, middleaged woman, and r.r; the tramway ear slopncd at Hanover Street, she reve to leave tho ear. Suddenly she halted and looked at her hands, then at the seat she had just vacated, then at the young man who had been sitting beside her. •‘“.Are you going to got oli hero?” abruptly a*ked the conductor. Bho turned again to get out, and thou stopped at Willis Street, she rose to ‘'Oh, dear, i’vo lost my purse.” "Wc can’t wait lor you," rejoined the conductor, while hall a dozen geis Vi’tro looking for the lost article. Bho cast her eyes too often at the young man, beside whom she had been sitting, to add to hits comfort. 110 blushed as ho surmised her suspicion, search continued, and too driver was showing his impatience l to start. “How many purses did you have?” asked tho conductor, as ho looked ut her right hand. ‘‘Only one, of course, came the excited reply. And then her eyes rested on the purse, > tightly clutched in her own right harm i