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Show OFFICER GETS NEW LIP; SURPRISED AT SOURCE ( j Doctor Play Strange Trick1 on Wounded Yankee Lieutenant. LO.NUON, Dec. H. A (I.k: tor has played a trick on Hecond lieutenant i riement O. Kelt uf Olean, N. Y.. but j the lieutenant la not anicry about It. j In fct, he is ou of the huppical men In Ixindon. I lieutenant Kelt waa lilt by a shell on (September terrible bultle ; between umbral and tt. uetttni. ( when the llindenbura; line was hri.kt-ii. . He luy unconscious in the shvl. bule. I nobody knows fur how long-. I When h came tu hnnnelf. he fount! ) that he was wounded In tlis hip. In i the hnnl and also that his lower Hp hail been shot away. He was taken f tu the hospital. (The doctor placed liltu iihtler an ' snmthMic and inatle him a n w up. . The work' wus s perfectly Mini stu - . I renftfully done that it would Vfy the lieutenant's oWn mother to detect that : tha present Hp Is the second one that : her son has possfsaeal. All that re- 1 mains to show that ha waa wounded in the mouth is a slight scar. Just a tadc of honor. lieutenant Kelt has alwas won- dered whan the new flesh came from that went Into his face. Was It taken t from tha anatomy of .some irenerous colonel or major general? Was it a rontrthutlon of some pretty younv ' KnglJsh maiden? The lieutenant is ai bachelor. Today at the Red Cross hospitsl in i London he unwrapped the bandages ' of his own left hand. j Then he knew the trick which thel aurffwon had played upon him while he was under the influence of ih ether. For he saw deeply cut In hi j own hand an slmoni perfect rapid's ' rosebud. That was his new lip |