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Show CASn OP SOMNAMBUtlSM. Victim Vthn-lrrril He Hot III rest ftulleil. "All hotels have more or less experience, ex-perience, with somnambulists said ths clerk of one of the New Orleans houses, 'lint wp had a case here recent ly that I certainly entitled to first prim for originality Just a week ago today a gentleman registered wllh us from well, I gums It would hardly bs fair to give his address -It was a town In an adjoining state, and I assigned him myself to a room on the second floor At about I n clock the first night he was here ho walked down stilrs and illsappesred through the front door In an hour or thereabouts ho came hack, and as he was psstlng through the lobby some guests who happened to be atandlng there talklntf noticed that he u barefooted 01 course the) were greatly stutlcd but he paid no attention to them and walked aratght on upstairs Naturally Natural-ly they concluded that he waa either drunk or craay and when they told the clerk nn dut) about It he thought they were Joking Nevertheless he mentioned the muter to me and I told him to keep an eye open for the gentleman gen-tleman th: next night I saw him several sev-eral times during lha day and be appeared ap-peared In be all right, but at about the earns hour aa beforo he came downstairs down-stairs again, and sure enough, he was In his bare feet Otherwise he was fully dressed, he had his hat on his head and he wore the oxpresslon of a man In a brown study As on the first occasion he epoko to nobody, and one of the employes of the house slipped slip-ped out behind him Ha went straight up the street walking very slowly and looking neither to tin right nor the left After going eight or nine blocks he slopped and then strolled back When he entered the hotel he passed under a strung light, and It waa plain from the appearance of his eyes Ihst he was sound asleep He went upstalra, entered hla room which he had left open, and that was the last seen of him for the night Next morning I took him i-alde and told him what had onurred He was perfectly dumbfounded, yet be said that he had arisen both mornings with a vague recollection of having taken a midnight walk which he supposed was merely a dream He had also been putxled to note that hla feet were soiled and bruised lis stayed with us one raoro night, but did not repeat the performance The man Is a welt-to-do merchant, and assured me that he had not wslked In his sleep before at least, tot to his knowledge-slnre he was a hlld "New Orleans Times-Demociat, |