[The Confessions of Artemas Quibble by Arthur Train]@TWC D-Link bookThe Confessions of Artemas Quibble CHAPTER VII 15/20
If this did not appeal to the clerk Levine would persuade him to keep it for a short time on approval, paying down a dollar "as security." Almost all of his victims would agree to this if only to be rid of him.
In default of aught else he would lay the watch on the counter and run away. Nothing more would occur for a couple of weeks, during which the clerk would hold the watch pending its owner's return, little suspecting what was going on meantime.
Levine, having "landed" his watch, immediately swore to a verified complaint in an action at law for "goods sold and delivered," setting forth on the date in question he had sold--not to the clerk, but to his _employer_-- a gold watch for the sum of fifty dollars, which the latter had then and there promised to pay for at once.
The complaint further recited that the money had been duly demanded and payment refused, and asked judgment for fifty dollars and the costs and disbursements of the action.
Levine would then procure from some irresponsible person an affidavit that the latter had personally served a copy of the complaint in question, together with a summons, upon the defendant, and place the case on the calendar for trial.
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