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Rudolph Klein had not for a moment believed Anna's story about the

watch, and on the day after he discovered it on her wrist he verified

his suspicions During his noon hour he went up-town and, with the

confident swagger of a certain type of man who feels himself out of

place, entered the jeweler's shop in question

He had to wait for so

contemptuously the contents of the show-cases That even his wildest

estimate fell far short of their value he did not suspect, but his lips

curled This here the leaht the this country into the war to protect its loans

to the Allies Aland's chestnuts out of the fire

that wos of pearls,

those glittering diamond baubles

Into his crooked mind there flashed a line froht before: "War is hell Let those ant to, go to

hell"

So--Wall Street bought pearls for its woold wrist-watches for girls they wanted to seduce

The expression on his face was so terrible that the clerk behind the

counter, waiting to find what he wanted, was startled

"I want to look at gold wrist-watches," he said And eyed the clerk for

a trace of patronage