Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-06-25

enough to live on for the rest of our
days. ] agreed with him that the sur
geon, being dead, couldn't have any fur
Their use for the old lady, and so we
made up our minds to get under way
Nth her for Port Said, without waiting
Tor anyone to come and make inquiries.
we took the surgeons body, and put il
INTO the queens coffin, and committed 1T
to the pit as solemn as we could. Bill
Stitched the poor man up in canvas as
regular as it he had died at sea. and if
we'd had prayer book along Bill would
have read the service and given the sur
geon good send off. for Bill is a scholar.
though, | say. he mayn't look it Just now.
When we had buried the surgeon we COW
cred up the tomb with sand and char
tered camel and, flashing Hatasoo TO
the camefs hurricane deck, we went to
Luxor, and caught steamer for Cairo.
Now. sir, you probably don't know
that the Egyptian government won't al
low nunnnies to be taken out of the
country. So we fixed up a yarn about
the pine box being the coffin of the sur
geon, who had died suddenly, and asked
us to take his body to his wife in the
states. We went to the American CON
sui III Cairo, and got a certificate that
the box held the last remains of the sur
geon, and he told us that we were noble
men to undertake the job of getting the
surgeons body to America and that he
would write to the widow and tell her
we We're coming. That was Just what
we didn't want, but Bill allowed that the
consul was only talking big, and that he
couldn't possibly know where the widow
lived. You see, sir, we forgot that the
consul could get the widows address by
writing home to the navy department,
which is just what he did
Il was scared by what the consul said.
and told Bill that we had better cut the
old lady-meaning, of course Queen
Hatasoo-in two. and each man carry
half of her in his bag. In that way we
could get aboard the ship without the
Egyptian police getting hold of her, and
we could carry her home with us COM
Portable. and splice her together again
after we were safe ashore. That would
have saved us the trouble of deserving
the Lancaster, which we had to do. and
don't believe in deserving ship unless
you've got good reason for doing so. But
Bill said it was all right. and then when
we got the queen to New York we could
get her ont of the custom house with the
certificate the consul gave us. and that
ii the custom house people wanted to see
the surgeons widow, we could hire old
Sally, who kept a boarding house in
! Cherry street, to come and serve as
widow long enough to satisfy everybody
well. sir | did as Bill said. for ne
knows a thing or two-that Is. when he
hasn't been running large for week in
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geon on the pine box. and marked it,
Corpse, with care, this side up and we
shipped it aboard Prince liner for New
York, and shipped ourselves aboard the
same ship as able seamen. OF course,
this took money, but the surgeon had
paid us off only Il day before he was
knocked over. and, besides, we sold a few
bits of Hatasoo's gold in Cairo, though
we didn't get anything like what it was
worth We both kept as straight as you
please the whole time we were ashore,
| for we were pretending to be two scien-
tife chaps that had been eXcavating with
the surgeon, and scientific chaps don't
get drunk, so far as | ever knew, How
ever. we calculated to make up for lost
time on getting TO New York.
"Ye had long passage to New York.
nut we ldliutti at tdSAi anu ip1l StiitA me
let the corpse lie i'm the custom house fur
couple of days, while we tried TO get
rid of the thirst that we had brought
from Egypt The third day we hunted
up sally. and went down TO the custor,
house To get the queen. She wasn't there.
That consul in Cairo had sent a copy of
the certificate To the surgeons widow,
and she had turned up and taken posses
sion of the corpse. and carried it off with
her All we could get was a wigging
from the head custom house officer, who
said he couldn't understand our game in
irving to get unlawful possession of
corpse that didn't belong To Us. but, con
sidering that we weren't more than half
sober, he'd say nothing. provided we
cleared out in double auick time.
1--WE had good deal of trouble in
tracking the widow and the corpse. but
we did so at hast. We found that she
lived in a village about twenty miles
from, New York, and that she had carried
The nine box home with her, and buried
n in bang mp style The surgeon had
been popular man in the village. ard
doetared people free when he was ashor.
and had command Of the Sunday school.
w, fonnd that the widow had ordered "A
bio monument with reading on it. saving
that Here lies Thomas Stark. ana all
the rest of it. And by this time THAI
there monument has been zap and lying
for four good years.