3 i4 TWO DIANAS IN ALASKA 



Northern Pacific pays very well, and the cars are 

 always crowded. 



On went Mrs. A. romancing about the pitiable con- 

 dition of Mrs. X., who upon an urgent message from 

 Chicago left Seattle hurriedly, finding herself so 

 short of money that she came to sell the pawn ticket 

 on a beautiful coat, a coat worth quite $250, which 

 could be redeemed for the trifling sum of $25. 



Mr. A., being a business man, wondered how it 

 seemed so certain that the coat was worth even so 

 much as $25, but the artful Mrs. A. had seen the 

 treasure in the window. Of course she herself could 

 not enter a pawn shop, would John dear John 

 attend to the matter for her ? Here she handed over 

 the $25, which she was just able to scratch together 

 out of her allowance. John dutifully promised to 

 "fix it up," and everything seemed to herald a suc- 

 cessful ending to the difficulty. 



On his return from the bank that evening Mr. A. 

 had regretfully to admit that he had clean forgotten 

 the whole thing, and his wife, in a decidedly anxious 

 condition, wrung a promise from her lord that he 

 would without fail hie him to the pawnbrokers the 

 very first thing on the morrow. Arrival of Mr. A. 

 next evening, who produced for his agitated wife's 

 inspection a small diamond ring, which when new 

 might have cost $30. 



" I guess there's some darned error about that 

 coat, anyhow," he said. "This is what I got on 

 ticket No. 20579." 



Tableau ! Collapse of Mrs. A., who foresaw some 



