World Notes Canada

When French-speaking Yves Lavigueur, 18, answered the door at his family's house in Montreal one night last week, he found a poorly dressed caller babbling in English and unable to say anything in French. He promptly sent the man packing. But the next night the visitor knocked again, and this time he had a French-speaking person in tow. With his friend's help, William Murphy, 28, explained to Yves's father Jean-Guy, 51, that he had found a wallet belonging to the elder Lavigueur. The unemployed Murphy had anonymously returned the wallet to Jean-Guy but held onto a 72 cents lottery ticket inside --until he learned it was worth a winning U.S. $5.6 million. The grateful JeanGuy decided to divide the winnings among himself, four members of his family and Murphy. Murphy's share of the proceeds: $864,000, which in Canadian dollars made him a millionaire.