Mrs Bixby And The Colonels Coat

The story is about Mrs Bixby receiving a glamorous mink coat from a man she had an affair with. She hopes to sneak the coat into her house without her husband noticing but soon realises that herhusband has plans of his own.

Mrs. Bixby and her husband, a dentist, live in a flat .Once a month, for years, (eight years she went by) Mrs Bixby would get on the train at Pennsylvania Station andtravel to Baltimore, supposedly visiting her old aunt, meanwhile she is having an affair with the Colonel

One day, Mrs. Bixby gets a rare and expensive present from the Colonel: a black, lustrous, andquite extravagant mink coat. A letter from the Colonel that came in the box with the coat informs Mrs. Bixby that they can no longer see each other, and suggests she tells her husband the mink coatwas a present from her aunt for Christmas. She is clearly in despair as she reads the letter.

Mrs. Bixby however knows that her aunt is far too poor to be given credit for the purchase of the coat,and is intent on keeping it. She decides to go to a pawn-broker, and sells the coat for $50. The pawn-broker gives her a pawn ticket, which she declines to mark with any kind of name, or description.The ticket does however guarantee her right to claim the coat at any time. She tells her husband that she found the pawn ticket in the taxi, and he decides it would be best if he redeemed the ticket,in spite of Mrs. Bixby's pleas.

The next day Mr. Bixby goes to the pawn shop to redeem the ticket and claim the object it stands for. Mrs. Bixby gets her all excited about it and rushes to herhusband's office after he's claimed it. Just before she opens her eyes to see it, he says " It's real mink!". She then opens her eyes to find it is mink, but that it is merely a small, mangy stole, and nother coat. Mr. Bixby notes both that he will be coming home late that night, and that since he spent $50 redeeming the ticket, that he will not be able to buy Mrs. Bixby a Christmas present.

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