Show adventurers CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF hospital horror by FLOYD FLOTD GIBBONS famous headline hunter ELLO EVERYBODY H li you know lots of adventures have happened d bee be someone did the wrong thing somewhere along the but heres one that resulted from saying the wrong its the story of george T parker of brooklyn N y its as fine an example of a horrible experience as asive ive across in many a day it that george talked out ot of turn or tried to start an ail am arglen no theres nothing like that in this yarn what little george georg did dt he said with the best and most peaceful intentions in the wo world rid j matter of fact george was just out of the operating room and cyina ITI a hospital bed when he said it birds in that fix dont go around und I 1 J tor for fights and you and I 1 know it w but just the same george sure talked himself into a I 1 lot of trouble trouble that probably caused one death and cam ca mighty near causing georges it was april ot of 1917 the united states had just entered the W war and maybe you remember how we used to guard our bridged brid railroad yards in those days well what george was doin was a private in the seventy first regiment and his company was to kingston NY to guard a bridge over the rond rondour rondout out creek tiey th put a couple ot of freight cars on a siding and built bunks in them to h the men and it is in one of those freight cars thit that georges story at sta ria it was twelve midnight and george was just leaving to take his at guard duty when he began to feel terrific pains the doctor gal ta was appendicitis and he flagged a train loaded george on the bagg bag took him into the gg car and kingston city hospital bearded old man alan in next bed they held him in a ward for a day tor for observation there were EM twenty other patients in the room and one ot of them was a bedridden bed ridden f low named tony he had been were there fifteen years poor devil hiis V broken spine but helpless as he was tony is the hero ot of this yarn it was he w who h 0 saved georges life j while george was still under observation they brought in nal D nfl other patient a bearded old man with a case of 0 blood loiso poiso in his left arm they put him in a bed rig right tn front of GeorE etl and well so somehow m chow or other that old fellow gave george the creeps every time lie he looked at him in the morning they took george out to the operating room and t sawbones took out his appendix they brought him back and put hir 1 I 3 ii 1 11 MT T 4 jf am where Is that fifteen cents he hissed in the same bed he had bad had before right next to the old fellow with th ft beard who gave him the willies for two days after his operation george was a pretty sick mir mar what with the ether he had swallowed and the shock of being cut up 4 the surgeon on the second day the old fellow with the beard bear d ua beci delirious and started to rave and that help georges fra tram mind any y george pretended to be lenny J lie he was talking about some one named lenny george says he kept it up until everyone started to complain I 1 thought it boull all right to try and pacify him so when he called for lenny aga answered him the trick seemed to work the old fellow actually thought though the he wa a talking to lenny what did you do with that junk in the attic 11 asked and george answered 1 I sold it how much did you g for it the old fellow wanted to know and george told him fi 71 teen cents after that the old fellow was quiet at ten 0 clock th hi lights were put out and george dozed off and then suddenly george woke up at the sound of a footstep beside his bed 1 I looked up he says and there staring down doan at me was the old fellow his eyes seemed to be popping i out of his head aud and his good hand was reaching down tor for my j throat and in a low voice he hissed where is the fifteen cents it might have been funny that situation it if it been so too but to george there was neither humor nor pathos in it nor ai ao thing else but just plain terror there he lay helpless two days out buu the operating room and hardly able to lift a finger in his own defea dereal and over him stood a man out of his mind and plainly bent on violen violent Str strangling anlin him to death f 1 persa perspiration abiol b be I was petrified with fright says george in a 2 1 1 running oft off me like water from a faucet the old man was white nightgown with his long hair h hanging a biging do down wn over his shoulders a his white beard owing flowing f over his chest the moonlight was shining shi iuni on him and the very picture of him was enough to scare a man to dea 0 ha 1 I find my voice utter a word I 1 put up MY to protect myself but it was weak and shaking the old man maa gras g tl and me by the throat and began to squeeze his hand was strong an lucky for me he have two of them that the other one was w pled with blood poisoning or he might have strangled me then there As it was that one hand any too gentle george wonder anyone in the room was awake if he could only scream ba but ut wi a old mans fingers tightening on his throat it was va s too late f tor or th in t he wondered if he was going to die there in the apparent s et C g I 1 pital bed and then suddenly the lights came on nurses an ana with ule e r ants came running to the rescue tony the poor fellow e ow spine had brought help he had awakened seen what at was ha 13 napp and pushed the buzzer that summoned the nurse the old man was taken away to a padded cell and on the met folla morning lie was dead the exertion had been too much tor for ami Q service |