El señor y la señora Bixby vivían en un pequeño apartamento en Nueva York.

El señor
Bixby era dentista y tenía unos ingresos normales. La señora Bixby era una mujer a
la que le gustaba la bebida. Una vez por mes, y siempre en viernes y por la tarde,
la señora Bixby tomaba un tren a Baltimore, para visitar a su tía. El señor Bixby
aceptaba con benevolencia ese arreglo. Sabiendo que la tía Maude vivía en Baltimore
y que su esposa le tenía un gran cariño.

La verdad, es que la anciana tía era una coartada . ya que la señora bixby pasaba
la noche con un su amante quien era un coronel,era rico, vivia en una casa
preciosa, en las afueras de la ciudad, no tenia familia. Año tras año, la agradable
amistad entre la Sra. Bixby y el Coronel continuó sin problemas, y el esposo
dentista de la Sra. Bixby nunca sospechó la verdad.

Luego, después de una visita justo antes de Navidad, la Sra. Bixby estaba parada en
la estación de Baltimore, esperando el tren que la llevaría de regreso a Nueva
York, cuando de repente uno de los sirvientes del Coronel apareció y le entregó una
gran caja de cartón.

Lo que el coronel le había regalado era el abrigo de bisón, en la caja también

había una carta de despedida del Coronel, que decia que sabia lo mucho que le
gustaba el bison y le pidió que lo aceptara como regalo de despedida. Por sus
propias razones personales, ya no podría verla. Atras habia otra nota que decia
solo diles que la tía te lo dio para Navidad. La tia Maude no podria darle eso
porque no tenia dinero, con la emocion de probarselo olvido ese detalle tan
importante.

La Sra. Bixby pensó para sí misma "Creo que lo hizo a propósito solo para
molestarme. Sabía muy bien que no podría quedármelo. Cuando volvio paso por una
casa de empeños, en el interior, inventó una historia sobre la pérdida de su bolso
y todo su dinero, y dejó el abrigo de piel con el prestamista a cambio de cincuenta
dólares en efectivo y un boleto de empeño que insistió en que no tenía nombre ni
dirección.

Ella ideo que cuando llegara a la casa le diria a su marido que encontro ese boleto
en el taxi y que lo hiria a reclamar al siguiente dia, era un plan ingenioso salvo
que el marido insistio en ir a buscarlo el antes de ir a su trabajo, el cual ella
termino aceptando, con la condicion que el la llame ni bien retire el articulo.

Cuando el lo retira, la llama y le dice que era una mujer con suerte pero que le
diria hasta que llegue a su casa, ella decide ir al mediodia a buscarlo a su
trabajo, el quiere sorprenderla y le dice que cierre los ojos. Cuando los abre se
encuentra que era una bufanda de piel, lo cual ella la deja sorprendida, ella
pensando en que el prestamista la habia estafado, iria a reclamarle el tapado,
saliendo furiosa del trabajo de su esposo ve a la secretaria con el tapado puesto

Mr. and Mrs. Bixby lived in a small apartment in New York. Mr. Bixby was a dentist
and had a normal income. Mrs. Bixby was a woman who liked to drink. Once a month,
and always on a Friday afternoon, Mrs. Bixby took a train to Baltimore to visit her
aunt. Mr. Bixby benevolently accepted this arrangement. Knowing that Aunt Maude
lived in Baltimore and that his wife was very fond of her.

The truth is that the old aunt was an alibi. Since Mrs. Bixby spent the night with
her lover who was a colonel, he was rich, he lived in a beautiful house, on the
outskirts of the city, he had no family. Year after year, the pleasant friendship
between Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel continued smoothly, and Mrs. Bixby's dentist
husband never suspected the truth.

Then, after a visit just before Christmas, Mrs. Bixby was standing in the Baltimore
station, waiting for the train that would take her back to New York, when suddenly
one of the Colonel's servants appeared and handed her a large carton box.

What the colonel had given him was the bison coat, in the box there was also a
farewell letter from the Colonel, who said that he knew how much he liked the bison
and asked him to accept it as a farewell gift. For his own personal reasons, he
would no longer be able to see her. On the back there was another note that said
just tell them your aunt gave it to you for Christmas. Aunt Maude couldn't give him
that because she had no money, in the excitement of trying it on she forgot that
important detail.

Mrs. Bixby thought to herself, "I think she did it on purpose just to annoy me. She
knew very well that she couldn't keep it. When she came back, she passed a
pawnshop, inside, she made up a story about losing her bag and all his money, and
he left the fur coat with the pawnbroker for fifty dollars in cash and a pawn
ticket that he insisted had no name or address on it.

She thought that when she got home she would tell her husband that she found that
ticket in the taxi and that she would file a claim the next day, it was an
ingenious plan except that the husband insisted on going to look for it before
going to work , which she ended up accepting, on the condition that he calls her as
soon as he picks up the article.

When he picks it up, he calls her and tells her that she was a lucky woman but what
would she tell him until she gets home, she decides to go to look for him at work
at noon, he wants to surprise her and tells her to close her eyes. When she opens
them, she finds that it was a leather scarf, which surprises her, thinking that the
lender had cheated her, she would go to claim the coat, leaving her husband's work
furiously, she sees the secretary with the coat on