Show l owe fwu oad diaks qa adventurers CLUB H HEADLINES E A D L I 1 N E S FROM THE LIVES OF PE PEOPLE OPLE LIKE YOURSELF 1 1 tic the doctor a W rid the M killer killers 9 if lly ily FLOYD famous headline hunter H HELLO ELLO you EVERYBODY know boys and girls a doctors life is full ful I 1 ol of 4 adventure its full of inconveniences too they never know at what hour of the day or night the telephone might ring and send them rushing along on a sick call with the story of 0 hla his A doctor crashes the adventurers club today most nerve wracking experience dr john A Mang lerl lerf of brooklyn N Y Is his name speaking about doctors though I 1 want to tell you first a thing I 1 saw in a theater one evening the play piny was a melodrama the packed house was silent at a particularly thrilling moment when suddenly a voice rang out from the audience Is there a doctor in the house everybody looked around nt at the interruption the actors stopped in the middle of their hn lines es A little man with a serious face was waa standing in the aisle then another man with a board beard got up next to me ile he called toward the man in the aisle yes ho fie said im a doctor the little man looked the doctor over while we all watched with wit h bated breath then ho he lived his hand I hello fello dobill he said and sat ant down all there was to it but there ought to be a law don dont t you think so called out nt at two in the morning out our loc doc Mang lerla call any joke doe doc had gone to bed log dog tired after a busy day sit at the hospital when that blooming phone of his tore him out of the drowsy arms of doc boo rubbed hla his sleepy eyes and glanced at the clock two 01 in the morn morning swell time for anybody to get sick alck he thought and answered the insistent ring but it the phone it was the doorbell worse luckl luck probably an emergency accident well sir doe doc dragged his weary limbs out ot of bed the way he had done many times since hanging out his shingle and staggered down to the door doc was practicing medicine at that time in the both bath juno june 11 11 I 1 11 d w 1 e the man on the he lied bed had been shot tion section of brooklyn A stranger stood at the door the st stranger fanget looked pretty tough and he seemed nervous A pal of mine Is sick he said and begged the doctor to come at once and visit him doc says he admits he like uie the looks of the man but a doctors duty comes first so he climbed into his clothes a and nd stopped stepped out to make the call A taxi stood at the door and the stranger insisted that doc ride with him doe doc noticed another shady looking gent sitting in the back sent seat of at the cab so he decided hed take his own car and play safe ill follow you doe doc said and climbed into his coupe evil looking house in a bad street the cab shot away and turned so many streets as doc followed that tha t the good doctor know where he was finally the cab stopped in an evil looking street and doe doc drew up at the curb the house they had come to was even more evil looking it was a forbidding looking frame house without any lights showing As the cab drove away doo doe was escorted up the rickety steps by the two men the second man doc says was even tougher looking than the first they opened the sagging door with a latch key and went inside A dim gas light burned low in the hall without a word one of the men led the way up the stairs while the other dropped in behind doc doc says he just knew something w was as wrong and wondered if they were going to attack him they turned into a halt half dark bedroom on the bed fully dressed was a third hard boiled looking gent ordered to treat a wounded man and then doc understood the man on the bed hod had been shot his hands as he ha gripped his stomach were red with blood doe doc was in a bad spot there Is a law that forbids doctors to treat bullet wounds without immediately reporting them to the police the law is very strict A doctor in the dillin her case Is in jail now for treating the wounded gunman doe doc hesitated but as he glanced around at the glowering faces he realized hed have to do something OR ELSEI one of the men nudged him roughly get busy doc he growled DOR doe did some quick thinking the men he knew now were gang if he treat their pal they might give him the same dose of lend lead if he did the police would have to be noti noticed fled and the gangsters would come back at him for that ile he stalled and told them he had left his stethoscope in the car they let him go and doe doc went out in the street he got a break A policeman was passing doc dian didn want to leave a wounded man die without medical attention so he decided to go back but he told the policeman that it if he out in 20 minutes to come after him then doe doc as he entered left the latch oft off the door police came at the right moment ills his patient doc found had been shot in the stomach nto mach his friends dropped their pretense and told him bluntly to extract the bullet and be fast about it doc told the truth that the operation was difficult without an xray X ray ile he suggested a hospital the patience of the gunmen was now exhausted doe doc expected any minute to have his head bashed in one of the thugs raised a clenched fist can that hospital stuff he growled or well send you there and aind just at that hat moment like in a play the policeman came with radio car reinforcements and took the gang off does docs neck and the iho next day doc read in the papers that his patient and his pals were held in jail for wholesale murders that was years ago before the G men made it sate safe for doctors and doe doc failed to treat a patient since 4 copyright service |