bum hocks a fiddle. a week later rich dude offers
pawnbroker $2k for it.
Pawnbroker asks dude to return after bum comes to redeem the fiddle. Bum returns, pawnbroker offers $500, bum gets him up to $1k & splits. Dude never returns, pawnbroker has worthless fiddle, bum &
dude party. Old English con job.