“You’re a good old sport, all right, let’s have a drink on it.”
“No, thank you,” he said, hurriedly. “I must be going now, but I want to tell you that you have a great gift which you are throwing away.”
“So long, old pal, live while you can, for you’ll be a long time dead,” she said, and he was gone.
She looked at the watch curiously for a moment, and then called one of the waiters.
“Ha, Jimmy, here’s a swell watch. Ask the old man how much he will give me for it—it looks to be worth about fifty.”
The waiter returned in a few minutes and said:
“He says he’ll give you ten.”
“All right, he’s on, get the coin.”
She stayed until she had spent the money, and then she went reeling home.
True? Of course it’s true, every word of it.