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THE millionaire sat looking at the tramp with THE
benign interest.
Presently he leaned across and said: "The thing I'm more interested in than anything is this Just what do you reckon you will do with this hundred pounds now that I've given it to you?"
host "Never mind that," his suid, "Just tell me what you might do with the hundred pounds I've given you."
the The ramp sat staring millionaire with his mouth open. He was lxed like that for some time before he transferred his eyes to the wad of nates in his hand the
Lwenty
"Wel, cripes, Guy," Joe sald, crisp crackling Overs-more
shaking his untidy and money
head. "I'm bit too Krow! than he had ever handled at one time in his life.
dazed, like, to think proper. The whole thing's kind of knocked me for six."
"I
dunno.
I
Guv, honest don't," the tramp said in be-
wilderment,
"Have Боте more wine," the millionaire said, miling, and poured another liberal
measure
of vintage luto
the trump's glass.
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"I know these things happen In books and flims," the tramp went on, "'I mean...the eccentric millionaire dishing out money to tramps like me. Oh. begging your pardon. Didn't mean to call you ercentric. It allpped out, so to speak."
sir
They sat together in front of
"Think nothing of it. Joe," the imposing fireplace in thu
anid Mortimer Everest. "You are millionaire's sumptuous lovage.
At quite right, I am eccentric.
think I must be. You On one
Mortimer rust, 1 wug Everest,
millionaire in- see, I've been doing this every dustrialist, Fucing lm sitting u Christmas for some years now, Jitle uncertainly on the edge of
and I get a terrible kick out of it." plain his chair, was Joe. Just Joe the Hobo, who having long since abandoned any attempt at shaving, now sported a rather ragged beard.
"Make yourself comfortable," Mortimer Everest said.
Joe looked down at his dirty, greasy trousers and Jacket, ali lattered round the edges, and wiped his mouth with his cuft. I don't want to dirty your nico furniture, Guv," he said.
Joe was cycing him with in- terest. "You don't menn, Guv, tho that some rich bloke did
Bame to you?"
"That's what I do meor," Everest mid, again replenishing his guest's gloss. "You ace there was a time when I looked very nuch as you do now. I felt rather bilter towards the world in general, and did my best to run away from it. I became what
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Mortimer Everest faced the tramp across a blazing log fire. "Tell me," he said, "what will you do with the hundred pounds I have just given you?"
we rulla tramp, Eve. He gave
or what the Americans call, I believe, bum.
The millionaire drew deeply on elgar. "Then, one day,
I lcupi in front of a bus BT14 grabbed a dog that was about to disappear under the wheels The owner was William child. He was deeply grateful, He took me home.
Ford-
me a cigar and several glosses of wine, fed me well, and finish- ed up by pre- senting me with twenty five- pound notes,"
"Co stone me," the tramp sald.
"He was not an eccentric like me. The hundred pounds was in the nature of a reward, But it set me up. I've never looked
"We sat before his fire, much back." as we're sitting now, and, as A Joe was thoughtful for a mo- matter of fact, it was Christmas ment, "What I can't get over,
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Guy, is why your chap Perkins The millionaire rose, and ex- should pick on me? I mean, he tended his hand "And now," just marches up to where I'm he said to the trump, "I'm going baving kip on the park bench, to send you put into the world and says, 'If you care to come again-to make your million." with me, you will experience
"Goodnight, Guv, and thanks," Joe said,
Joe Happy Christmas," his bost said.
The tramp slipped rattad to the back of the millionaire'a house and
knocked on the teltchen door.
something to your advantago'-—— or words to that effect.
"He looked proper labi-di-dah. I thought ho was a bit cuts at first.
Then I thought-well, nothing venture, nothing have. But I couldn't understand why ho should pick on me!"
Mortimer Everest smiled, "My
man.
Perkins, has a discerning eye," he said. "I know that he will select the man I want, You see, I can rely on Perkins. He has served me for many years. He has been more than a valet or "gentleman's gentleman." He has been my right hand man, I think he gets as big a kick out of my little Christmas eccentri- city as I get anyself.”"
The millionaire handed the tramp another cigor.
"I got this idea a tow years ago," Everest confessed. "I'm
No wife. quite alone.
No children, No relatives, I thought There's many a tramp who might do what i did."
"Goodnight
Perkins open- ed the door ond said: "Come in, Fred."
Fred, allas Joe, sat down at aidtchen table and counted out
atty pounds. "There's your half," he said, and pushed the money over to Perkins. Then he finger- ed his beard. "Blimey, I'll be glad to shave this little lot' off.”
"I've been thinking," Perkins sold, "Next year the disguise in going to get a bit tricky. You'va had dark hair ond glasses, groy hair and moustache, ginger halt and beard....
"Plenty of time to think about that before next Christmas," Then I decided to invite ono to my home cach
Fred alins Joe Christmas. murmured
You're the bloke with the entertain him, and send him away with a hundred pounds. I ideas, anyway. Old Everest likes outlined the idea to
a bloke Perkins,
who can make money and he was enthusiastic-a fel-
with his idens." low after my own heart, you Perkins merely smiled at his know,"
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