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Show FATE AND THE FLETCHERS Intervention That ' Madn it Certain Hour for Senator's Death Had Not Struck. Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida Flor-ida sought his berth one night on a sleeping car on the way south from Washington. Pulling back the curtains cur-tains of a lower nine, he saw that his bed was already occupied. "Hi, there!" called the senator,' shaking the stranger by the shoulder. The sleeper awoke and protested angrily. "My name's Fletcher," explained the statesman, "and this is my berth." "You've got nothing on me," answered an-swered the other. "My name's Fletcher, Fletch-er, and this is my berth." "My full name is Duncan U. Fletcher," Fletch-er," the senator elaborated. "So's mine," agreed the intruder. "Ah, I see," said the senator, politely. po-litely. "There must have been a mistake mis-take in reserving the same berth for two men of the same name. I'll go into the ner.t sleeping car." The stranger, by this time, was fully awake, and proceeded to apologize, and to offer to give up the berth. This the senator would not do, but went into the car ahead, and found a place to sleep. An hour later the train was wrecked. wreck-ed. The car in which the stranger occupied the lower nine fell through a trestle, and that Fletcher was killed. The senator's car was not damaged at all. Popular Magazine. |