San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-26
Walking Along the Gutter Six Stories from
the Sidewalk.

Walking Along the Gutter Six Stories from
the Sidewalk.
A rap at the door.
It was 10 O'Clock at night. The technology
Students, who occupy room on the second
floor of fremont street boarding house, moi
far from Worcester street, were about to re
tire They supposed the rap was made by
some school friend and accordingly shouted:
Come in"
The door slowly opened and revealed the
outlines of gaunt figure in white The face
was CHASTITY pale.
The boys sprang to their feet. The figure
glided into the room, and a faint voice gasped
Hello, boys"
Astounded. nonplused, almost speechless
the boys recognized the face and voice of
friend whom they supposed to be lying at his
home, half dozen miles away, critically i'll
with delirious fever
as that you, -T
YES" replied the weaker voice.
How, for heavens sake. did you get in
here in that garbP'
We'll boys hardly know. I'll try to tell
you about it," and he sunk into a chair
shivering with the cold They wrapped him
in overcoats, and he went on to say in a crazed
sort of a way that the last he remembered
was dropping to sleepin his own bed at home
Suddenly he was awakened by something
striking him on the head, and he found him
self liz a strange house, cropping about the
hallway in his night robe.
He heard voices He went down fight of
stairs and listened at a door.
He recognized the voices They were those
of friends at the institute. Hearing them
he knew where he was and raped at the
door.
But how did you get into the house~
81 don't know | have no recollection Of
anything more than | have told you" and
overcome with his exertions, he sank back in
a stupor The boys applied what restora
tives they had at hand, and, bringing him
partly to himself, they clothed him in gar
ments from their wardrobe and carried him
home. He lived six houses away, in the
same block They walked him up the steps
and rang the bell The party was ushered
into the hall by the servant, and there the
invalid's mother confronted her son, whom
she supposed to be lying asleep in bed up
stairs
The Technology boys explained as far as
they were able The amazed and thoroughly
frightened mother fastened her boy up stairs
and to bed again, when there she found the
first clew to the solution of the mystery of
his journey to the boarding house.
The window of his room was open. In his
sleep he had arisen and through the window
made his escape to the roof, a mansard, edged
by tin gutter, six stories from the sidewalk
Thence along the edge of the roof, balancing
himself by an almost supernatural power, he
made his way along the gutter, past the dor.
mer windows of five houses, and paused at
the sixth Here he found a window open at
the top. he lowered it still further and
climbed in
1t was the landlady's room At the time it
was vacant and the delirious sleeper made
his way through it to the hall Here he
wandered about in the darkness until he
found the stairway. Then he felt his way
down the stairs to the next floor and began
his wanderings anew.
Here, by chance, he struck his head against
a door jamb, and the shock brought him to
his senses. He heard the familiar voices.
and the rest Of the story has been told
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