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Show VOICED HIS THOUGHTS ALOUD. Comment Not Intended for Publication, Publica-tion, But It Was Heard. Sometimes a man's tirnlu plays him queer tricks, ns It gives wmc unconscious uncon-scious twist to thought or speech and then stralghtwny icsnmes Its normal functions, leaving Its owner greatly embarrassed. The enso In point Is that of a rather singular man who through a lonely life became misnnthioplc nnd who often, lucking other company, would talk to himself. At nil times he seemed preoccupied, ami, though possessed of a well-stored mind, h"C seldom sought the society of others. Twenty 3 ears or more of this sort of life had passed when one morning-ns morning-ns he was wnlklng down n hotel corridor cor-ridor he henrd "Good mor'nlng, colonel," col-onel," in a sweet feminine Ice. Unconsciously Un-consciously he bald: "Now, who the deuce Is she?" Then turning with that courtesy which Is pecullnr to "the old school gentleman," he replied: "Good morning, madam." |