Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1876 — A Banker Outwitted. [ARTICLE]

A Banker Outwitted.

' w-eotresfeundeat nfj the Paris Figaro al WhuJbo has been amusing. its | ren&etM with some laughable tales of life fiathal fashionable watering-nlaci*. Among teaa btLe following: A Parisian banker ha 4 the misfortune to posaow a wife who is addicted to gambling. Year after jrear site goes to Monaco and loses large Jnmsußihe cloth. Ver husband baa been al Ms Wits'end to atofrtaeevil wftbant pesorting to harsh nwasirea. At ba* a happythought struck Nhn • Calling tehi. a confidential clerk named Armand, who was unknown to his wife, he gave Ma instructions to follow tire lady and to -.attend daily at the gaming table. Armand -WNta told to watch carefully the way she Wtaket her money, and always 4o place a shailar amount on a* opposite numbef oacotar. By, thia means the banker hoped fiat he woo iff be able Io hedge the rams staked by his wife, and that the only loss be eould possibly experience would be the general expenses inclined by his dark. A short time elapttetL and Uichusband received among his corivs|»ondence aae morning two letters from Monaco — ■ae from his wife Ute other from Mr. Armaad. Opening the first, he found but Caro lines, but those to the point. The lady had experienced.* toss of tyoU" ■nd francs, and'wrotejfp/ h*qre ihoney. 'TWnsiag to the <rext fewer with sotare aelf--todafactior At his Awn shrewdness,' he read as follows: “Kind friend 'and patron; I bam implicitly followed your instructions, i I arafe .worked. 30 hard in life. Mratae arrives st the casino at midnight. TWehre hours without eating or drinking ■Wto jeke. flnraerer, I hire nothing to complain of. I have Won sixty thousand fraacs, and Tam hotjqnbltiopfl lam emient toatop diere. I start once for Montguyoa, a charming little town, where Iws bora. and where my cousin awaits ■rt,to whom Turn about to lie married. .Knowing the interest you take in my welfare, 1 shall indeed be proud if you will be present at our wedding. Of the twenty thousand francs which you entrusted me with there remains 11,341 francs, which Iremit to you in a Imnk check; the balance baa been expended in my hotel bill and caber incidental items.” The Ffynro con«‘Judfts tho/iiclings Of the banker on the receipt of these two communications can be better imagined than descrilied.