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"J"
Not So Smart
JUST the same," Andy Clow said, beckoned Andy inside. Andy noticed
"it sounds fishy to me. I don't that, the president looked worried. like it."
"Andy, the Fritz-Hayden Used Car
called. They said a Mr. Pierce just drove in with a super-special and of- fered to sell it to them for $600."
"What?"
Mr. Julian, president of Julian Auto lot, located on the edge of the city just Sales, Inc., sighed wearily.
"Why don't you like it? Why?"
Andy was never one to argue with
a superior, but this seemed to him like
"It
"They became suspicious, never
a situation that called for drastic mea- having been offered such a bargain isn't natural or normal, before. Pierce quite frankly told and I've always found it a good policy them he had just bought it from us.
sures.
to steer clear of situations that aren't If they didn't believe him to call me natural or normal. Look," he went on and find out.
intensely, "this Mr. Pierce is walking
by our show window. He sees our su-
They did."
"Six hundred dollars!" Andy mused.
per special deluxe model on display. "Andy, you were right and I was He steps inside and says: How much wrong. There's something fishy. I is that car?' Twenty-eight hundred told the Fritz people to hold dollars, I tell him. I'll take it,' he Pierce on suspicion.
says.
Mr.
No honest man Well automobile sales aren't would pall such a deal." made that way."
"No," Andy agreed, "no honest man "No? Then how are they made?" would pull such a deal, I think you Mr. Julian was sarcastically patient. made a mistake telling the “A man asked the price of a car. You people to hold him." tell him. He says he'll buy it. My!
Fritz
"Mistake nothing! It was the ́smar- I called the police. They're conducting an inves-
I may be awfully dumb, Andy, but it test thing I ever did. strikes me that such a transaction has all the ingredients of a splendid sale." tigation."
Andy looked worried. "Mr. Julian, "That's just the point!" Andy cried. you shouldn't have done that. It's "It's too easy. Mr. Julian, I've been just like the sale I made: too normal,
By Richard Hill Wilkinson
selling cars for years. I've come to too natural. I think you'll regret the know something about people, about move.”
"No
human nature. A salesman can't help "Bah!" snorted Mr. Julian. but see things that others overlook. one is going to make a sucker out of Mr. Pierce realised this. He wrote me."
out a check for twenty-eight hundred Andy happened to be in Mr. Julian's dollars and handed it to me. 'I'm go- office two days later when the brisk ing out to lunch,' he said. 'Have the young man with a briefcase entered. serviced and ready when I get He, smiled pleasantly and introduced back. Then he must have noticed himself.
car
something queer about the way I was "I'm Attorney Nick Chaplin, repre- looking at him. He smiled. If you're senting Thomas Pierce." worried, call up my bank in Philadel- "Hah!" said Mr. Julian, "so they phia and have the check confirmed":" found out he was a crook, eh?" Не
"Well, there!" Mr. Julian spread. looked triumphantly at Andy. his hands. "What in the world more "No," said Mr. Chaplin, "they didn't. The
can you want? Over and above They found out he was honest. board. Andy, you're too suspicious." money was in the bank to cover his "Do you mind," asked Andy, "if I check, and he was certainly within call the Philadelphia bank?”.
his rights selling his own property
2
Mr. Julian took a deep breath, for whatever amount he chose. The "Andy, you worry me. You've been only thing they discovered, Mr. Julian, working here nearly six years well, was that he had been arrested falsely, Mr. Pierce all right, just to satisfy yourself, go on charges made by you.
The incident in- ahead and call them. But mind, you is very indignant,
convenienced him no end. In fact, pay the charges."
Andy picked up the phone. A because of it, he was the loser in a transaction to the tune of moment later he was talking with the business bank in Philadelphia. He gave Mr. $5000," "
Mr.
smiled Pierce's name, the date, number and
Chaplin paused and
his Andy sucked in amount of the check.. Then he is pleasantly,
breath. Mr. Julian's fáco grew toned. He hung up slowly.
"It's good," he said. "Thoy'll pay ploding, when Mr. Chaplin said:
purple. He was on the verge of ex-
he
"My client was so indignant
it. There's not a thing wrong."
"Ha!" declared Mr. Julian. "Well, Andy, let this be a lesson to you. Now threatened to sue you for $25,000, but I persuaded him not to, realising run along. I'm busy."
Andy wasn't satisfied, but there the publicity would prove frightfully
He injurious providing you reimbursed was nothing else he could do. went back to the salesroom and or. Mr. Pierce for his loss of $5000.”
Ten minutes later the smiling Mr. dered the super apócial serviced. An hour later Mr. Pierce, tall, suave, Chaplin departed as briskly as he had Tucked in his breat pocket good-natured came in, asked for the come.
car and drove away in it. Andy was a certified check for $5000. Andy tried his best to be polite, but he didn't say a word, except to compli- couldn't rid himself of the idea that ment Mr. Julian on being smartfor something was wrong.
once:
An hour later Mr. Julian rapped (Copyright 1938, Bq The Associated on the glass partition of his office and Newspapers.) ·
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