Jacques watched the next scene unfold with keen interest. The man seemed to be genuinely perplexed as to what was going on and why he was being treated like a common criminal. The strangers saving grace would likely be that Jacques did not know his name so even when he told this story, no one was likely to tie it to the other man.

Jacques shrugged simply when the man glanced at him. The money was gone? Jacques could not help but be mildly confused. The man seemed equally insistent that he had paid. The cashier was equally as insistent that he had not. "Could the money just have been misplaced? Dropped behind the register perhaps?"