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Indeed I did cause trouble! There wasn't a man under much closer watch
than I was twenty years ago. Just one incident will illustrate this and
show what a change God brings about in a man's life when he is soundly
converted. It was in 1890 that a pal of mine and I were told of a place
in Atlantic City where there was any amount of silverware, etc., in a
wealthy man's summer home, so we undertook to go there and see if we
could get any of the good things that were in the house. We reached the
city with our kit of tools, and my pal went and hid them a little way
from the station, waiting till night, as we did not want to carry them
around with us. Tom said, "Dan, I'm hungry; I'll go and see what I can
get in a bakery." We were not very flush and could not afford anything
great in the way of a dinner. Off he went, and I was to wait till he
came back.
I sat down in the waiting-room, when a man came up and sat down beside
me, giving me a good-day. "Nice weather," said he. I said, "Yes." Said
he, "How's little old New York?" "All right," I answered. "Have you got
your ticket back?" said he. I thought he was a little familiar, and I
said, "It's none of your business.
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