THE SUSPICIONS OF CHARLES READE.
Wealthy men are often abnormally suspicious of tricks. The celebrated author, the late Charles Reade, was one of this kind. He always imagined he was being robbed, and set traps to catch the thieves. When he became lessee of a certain theatre he suspected that his ticket-office cheated him by letting in the public for anything they could get and ftc.eping tie money. So Reade turned up the collar of his overcoat, pulled his hat down over his oycsi and, shuffling up to the box-office* as the people were going in, he shoved a halfcrown into the box-office keeper's hand, and whispered, "It's all right—that's for you—l don't want a ticket. Just hnss me through."' The clerk ran out. I seized Reade by his coat-collar, and was njissin? him roughly Into the street, when he recognised his "chief."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 173, 14 August 1909, Page 3
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