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Show WRONG PATIENT M.ll.,1 1,, lh. ri.j.lrui.. .l 11 I. Mora latitat Mow. New Orient Time Democrat When I wis younger than I am now aid a prosperous Now Orleans physl elan chatting over an atlcr-luncheou cigar I was brim full of enthusiasm and used to null hoadlong Into all sort of queer places In rosponso to chance call.. Now I'm more cautious Ir those early days 1 had some alngu-lar alngu-lar adventures, and perhaps the on that stick firmest In my memory happened hap-pened In a tough sailors' boarding-house boarding-house netr tho river front I had been summoned there hy a big Norwn glan who rushed Into my omeo all out of breath, and told me his brother was dying In a fit He give me the address, ad-dress, said I would find tho man In room II and tore off tor a prtael When I reached the house the hallway was dark and alter n good deal of prowling prowl-ing I found the number and walked In. A lamp was burning dimly on the table In one corner and n huge boirdcil roan was stretched out on Ills back on the bed As notxhly wo In sight 1 concluded con-cluded ho must have riled, but to make suro I opened his ilinnel shirt and was placing my hand over his heart when he suddenly gripped mo around tb neck llko a bear Tho nttnek was so unexpected coming from what ! supposed sup-posed to be a corpue, that I was temporarily tem-porarily paralyxnl with horror nnd the man flung ma to tbo floor like a sack of meal Then I struck out Instinctively Instinc-tively and fought for my Ufa, but be was too heavy for me nnd was hammering ham-mering me as ho pleased when a lot of people rushed In and tore us apart. It turned out that I bad gono Into room 17 Instead of It nnd the man I had disturbed wiu a Danish sailor who always al-ways carried hi money In a pouch over hi chest Ha naturally concluded conclud-ed I was trying to rob him nnd wa endeavoring en-deavoring earnestly to kill mo One of my rescuer was the Norwegian's brother, who had recovered from his HI and did me more servlco than I was at all apt to do him It was a month before I wn abla to go nn the streets As I said before, I am moro careful now." |