Arizona republican., 1903-10-04
A NIGHTS LODGING
This Doctor Slept in Bed, but Nar-
 rowly Escaped Police Cell.

A young country doctor on a visit to
 the city had an experience one night
 last week that he is not likely to forget
 in hurry, says the New York Sun. If it had not been q very hot night he
 would in all probability have had to spend a few hours in the police sta ton.
 While wandering about alone eal'y in the evening he discovered that he had lest every cent of his money except one solitary nickel. After turning the situation over in his mind jle decided that the only way he could get out of his predicament was to enlist the good offices of a former classmate, a phy- sician practicing on uppor Broadway
 and occupying bachelor quarters. who
 had urged him to call before returning | home.
 The nickel just sufficed to land him
 at the door of his friends office up in the Eighties, but when he arrived he
 was somewhat dismayed to find nc one was at home. It was II o'clock
 and the young doctor was very weary. So he sat down on the steps to await the return of Dr. B-. He possessed his soul in patience for
  became deserted. Tenants of the apart ment looked askance at the lone figure on the steps as they passed in for the night and carefully closed the outer dCcrS.
 A bright idea suddenly dawned upon the almost discouraged doctor. He locked furtively around. There was not soul in sight.
 He tiptoed to the edge of the area way, and reaching across tried the office window. It slipped noiselessly upward at the touch. In moment he had climbed through and had the win
 dow down again.
 The much relieved young physician chuckled with satisfaction when he realized that he had found shelter for the night with so little difficulty. He lighted the gas and his pipe. and then remarking to himself that it was in- tensely hot, rapidly undressed and then sat down for quiet smoke. Fate had ordained that his rest was to be rudely disturbed. In few mo-
 mentS there was q commotion in the
 street. The entrance doors flew open with a crash. and the office bell began to jingle insistently. The now thor oughly surprised and alarmed country doctor hastily opened the door. Two large, perspirirg men. breathless and panting, confronted him. The doctor is small man and he
 had to stand on tiptoe to get look
 at them. That which he read in their
 faces spelled fright for him.
 "Is the doctor in?" they managed to
 gasp in chorus.
 NO, he's cut" responded the doctor, ! Pm a physician. and if it's hurry call from one of the regular patients | I'll make it for him." | The two panting men looked al each other a moment. and then doubled up. convulsed with laughter. ! "We-we thought-you were aha!
 ha! he! he!- a b-burglar," the gulf
 fawed. "A little girl on one of the
 upper floors saw you go in the window.
 Yes, and we wouldn't believe you were
 a friend of the doctors if you hadn't undressed. As it is l guess we will 1 have to let you stay. | "Im the tenant across the hall" ex- plained one of them. '',The girls fath- l CT woke me up and I've been out for ! helD-just take a look out the front window"
 The doctor peered from the shelter of
 the window curtains and beheld some l 300 excited persons, and prominent among them a man who held aloft a 1 glass of beer.
 That ain't all" declared the tenant 1 the whole blocks surrounded, and a l lot of fellows are watching with clubs | directly back of this, where you would come out if you sneaked the back
 way. That fellow with the beer rar 1 two blocks and never spilled drop
 The doctor said he was sorry he had i caused so much trouble. and assured the tenant that it would not occur l again. The latter stepped to the front 1 door as he vigorously mopped hi: brow and announced:
 Nothing doing"
 A murmer of disappointment aros,
 from the crowd.
 1 "Oh. pshaw,' growled the man witt the beer, as he lifted the glass to hi ' lips.
 An hour latter Dr. B. was sur II prised to find a visitor sleeping peace | fully in his bed.