She asked what the difference was between larceny and grand larceny, in a case. I replied:
"Grand larceny is a case where a woman leaves her first husband in one state and marries her second in another without a divorce; and twenty years in the penitentiary is a very common sentence for grand larceny in Michigan."
By this time she was trembling with fear, and said she would pay me in full if I would agree never to mention her name in connection with that larceny affair.
I assured her that all I wanted was my pay, and I would never molest her again.
She then returned to the store and paid me the cash. I had just given her a receipt in full when her husband made his appearance and asked what she was doing.
She replied that I was Johnston, the proprietor of the wholesale jewelry house that he had been dealing with.
He turned to me and said:
"See here! I paid your agent for those goods when I bought them."
"Did you? Well, your wife has been kind enough to pay for them again, and I guess the receipt I just gave her is about the only one you can produce."
She then called her husband and myself to the adjoining room, and quickly turning to him, said very excitedly: