When entering a hotel (where she and her husband were staying), Gladys, a devout Baptist, noticed a shabbily dressed man lounging idly in front of the newspaper stand in the lobby.  She noticed that several men stopped to talk to him and gave him a little money.  He seemed so cheered by the encounters.  She impulsively put $10 in an envelope, wrote “God Bless” on the outside and handed it to him.

The next day, the man stopped her on the street.  “Here’s your $250,” he said, cheerily.  “God Bless won, 25 to 1!”

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