"Where did you ever know me before? Were you ever in Pittsburg?" "Where did I know you? Were I ever in Pittsburg? Well, you'll find out where I knew you, and whether I was ever in Pittsburg, before you get through with me. I'll have you locked up inside of ten minutes if you don't settle with me," saying which I started out. She called me back, and in much agitation said: "Now see here; there is not a soul in this town knows that I have ever been married before, and if I _have_ committed larceny by not getting a divorce from my first husband, it will do you no good to have me arrested, and will only make me lots of trouble." I saw that I had her cornered, and immediately took advantage of it, and said: "Madam, just think of it! a woman with two husbands! Don't you know that larceny is one of the worst offenses a person can be guilty of, in this state? I am surprised that a woman of your intelligence should take the desperate chance of committing larceny, and grand larceny at that." She asked what the difference was between larceny and grand larceny, in a case. I replied: "Grand larceny is a case where a woman leaves her first husband in one state and marries her second in another without a divorce; and twenty years in the penitentiary is a very common sentence for grand larceny in Michigan." By this time she was trembling with fear, and said she would pay me in full if I would agree never to mention her name in connection with that larceny affair. I assured her that all I wanted was my pay, and I would never molest her again. She then returned to the store and paid me the cash. I had just given her a receipt in full when her husband made his appearance and asked what she was doing. She replied that I was Johnston, the proprietor of the wholesale jewelry house that he had been dealing with. He turned to me and said: "See here! I paid your agent for those goods when I bought them." "Did you? Well, your wife has been kind enough to pay for them again, and I guess the receipt I just gave her is about the only one you can produce." She then called her husband and myself to the adjoining room, and quickly turning to him, said very excitedly: "See here, John. This man knows me, and knows that I committed larceny, and grand larceny at that, and was going to have me arres--" "Larceny, did you say?" he interrupted, "what in ---- have _you_ been stealin'?" "Well, I hain't _stole_ nothin', John; but you know I hain't got no divorce from Uriah," she answered. "Oh, divorce be ----! you infernal fool. That's bigamy, you idiot; not larceny." I then began to laugh, and said to him: "Mr. ----, do you remember writing me a letter, once upon a time, telling me to go to the devil for that account, and that it would be a cold day when I got my pay; and I answered you, saying that I would some day catch you napping and get even with you?" His wife saw her mistake at once, and looked and acted silly enough.