Given below is an outline of the story given in the form of phrases. Fill in the blanks to create the complete story. Give it a suitable title.(120 -150 words) A rich man ......... had many servants......... purse with lot of money is stolen from rich man’s drawer......... rich man files a complaint in the police station ......... all the servants called ......... stick of same length given to each ......... servants told that stick of the thief will grow by one inch overnight ......... the thief cuts his stick by one inch ......... he is easily caught the next day.
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His affair that night was prosy. He was intending the murder of an old Spanish woman around the corner, on the Bowery, whom he had known for years, with whom he had always exchanged courteous greetings, and whom he neither liked nor disliked.
He did kill her; and she knew that he was going to the minute he came into her stuffy, smelly shop, looming tall and bland, and yellow, and unearthly Chinese from behind the shapeless bundles of second-hand goods that cluttered the doorway. He wished her good evening in tones that were silvery, but seemed tainted by something unnatural. She was uncertain what it was, and this very uncertainty increased her horror. She felt her hair rise as if drawn by a shivery wind.
At the very last she caught a glimmer of the truth in his narrow-lidded, purple-black eyes. But it was too late.
The lean, curved knife was in his hand and across her scraggy throat—there was a choked gurgle, a crimson line broadening to a crimson smear, a thudding fall—and that was the end of the affair as far as she was concerned.