It made a clatter, but nobody noticed over the din of quiet conversation and gentle music. As the waiter bent to pick it up, he carefully slipped a piece of paper in Roy’s pocket and looked into his eyes.

Roy was unsure of what was happening, but he understood that the man was trying to be discrete, so he played along and quietly opened the note under the table.

It contained a simple message — “Don’t drink the wine! The police are on their way!”

Roy was befuddled. What’s going on? he wondered as he tried to keep his composure.

After 5 minutes, the police arrived, and Karen was arrested. Roy still didn’t understand what was happening until the waiter shouted, “Hurry, go home!”

Accompanied by the police, Roy hurriedly drove to his home, and when they arrived, they found a man running out of the house with a bag. It turns out that the guy was Karen’s husband. They had been married for four years and were engaged in robberies.

Roy was happy that his parents had been away at the movies, so they were out of harm’s way. He returned to the restaurant later on, where he was able to speak to the waiter who saved him.

The man told Roy that he had moved to town from a city 150 miles away and that he had also been a waiter back there.

One year ago, Karen had swindled a rich man by putting sleeping pills in his wine while her man robbed his house. She got away with it at the time, but fortunately, the waiter recognized her immediately and started thinking of how to help Roy.

“I could not let her get away with it again,” he said.

Roy thanked the man for his kindness and rewarded him with a large sum of money, saying he saved him. Meanwhile, Karen and her husband were taken to court and sentenced to jail time for their deeds.

Roy later visited her in jail to tell her about how much she hurt him, but she showed no remorse. Instead, the woman only laughed at him. But Roy did not mind. He knew that she had lost her gamble.

“I hope one day you realize what it means to be betrayed by a loved one,” he said as he left her laughing manically.

What did we learn from this story?

• Evil will never go unpunished. Karen and her husband had been robbing rich men for some time, but Roy was rescued by the good samaritan, and he made sure that Karen and her hubby got what they deserved.
• If you can do something, don’t do nothing. If the waiter had decided to turn a blind eye to Karen’s presence and what it meant, she would have gotten away with stealing from Roy. However, the waiter chose to help and, in return, got rewarded for it.

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