The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20
LIS FRIENDS
IT. WITH THE BLUES.
Mao Win Appendicitis Tells VIM
Ne possa't Wat 10 fIesS of
Other Psogis's Tpoutiss.

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~ aaythlna 9Th him.
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ept hla hrad ~ thst say AT srnini
bets tll ahoit ~ o'cireh then vent ~ hta
fuom. The hfu, thine 80 hhew y" h"rtl
q pistol shirt then a ory from him
sTIr wanted W. w cums and help h'tn hvs
after he'd tried ~ make way With hitns"lf
n happcta like that scme'ifnea Ihry
regret Il whom lt's too late. They ink him
to n hospital and he died
Now. wili you toll me whv N" couldn't
have died somewhere elee instead ~ ~ this
hotelp Why they rick this hotel evetv
timel
Look herr. Won couldn't Ret me 10 hill
myself. I'D kill everybody else In tho
n~elghborhood before 10 do that. Certainly
Then run.
ri I'd lost a lot of money I'D 60 10 tho
fellow I'd lost II for and " up. I'd sav
10 him. I've lost your money. Give ma
some more Then maybe he would,
maybe he wouldn't. Az any rate I'd 10
alive yet. I wouldn't he lying Head with
q hole In my heart.
sThere was another fellow three months
ago. He was n friend of mine. Lived
-f-A - Il. tktx aarna hnNQl Ia told
me 10 come to his Office. he wanted 10 talk
TO me.
he had started a little business for HIM
wow II 1 could borrow a thousand
| dollars or so / could make a lot OF money
at this business. II / could only get some
body TO lend me q thousand or so You
know the way they talk.
swell, he got some fool somebody to lend
him that thousand. and the night / went to
his Office he was gay as a lark. Everything
was lovely and the goose hung mgr.
had a drink. We had two drinks, II ! re-
member. Then he left me.
1.-THE next morning l got a letter through
the .mail-mind you, he living night here
door opened and get his body. He was going
10 AXE carbolic acid, he wrote me.
Now, wasn't that a nice thing to find In
your mail Of a morning, to wake up to? Why
; o. they = Pick me out I say' Il" getting
at seemed that after I had left him he
went of and played a little game. OF cards
and lost every red cent he had borrowed
! from that ~idiot.every blessed re red n.Sent cent
himself up to the proper point.
IF that had been me, / would have run
away until the excitement died down.
would have borrowed another thousand
anything before / committed suicide.
But the most cruel thing of all was the
man who had appendicitis.
He lived here, too. I never saw u a
hotel in all my days for tragedies as this
sI,ve got appendicitis, too. Didn,t know
that9 Oh, yes. Got it pretty bad. Had
1t a year and bali, 1 reckon
out asS %isS e. sui Ssns sePFr rissslty n The PdS Sasols
all want to operate on me. Shows it's a
pretty interesting case. Anxious to do
some post-morteming, / suppose. but I'm
going to hold out as long as possible fighting
las l say, this fellow had appendicitis,
too. Had It worse than I had. It used to
be q popular topic Of conversation with us
tive. What made vi chummy, In fact,
and how we were going to try and cheat
the doctors aslong as possible.
well. pretty soon, he began 70 get blue,
awfully blue, same az you said you we're
IubI INV. 1O " v EgCili ~ 'dIh oboub
anything but death ard the grave and
things like that.
dWe played cards together and 7 tried
to coax him out Of 1t. afraid he'd go to bed
10 break open the door and take possession
Of the body and write to his relatives and all
that sort Of thing.
well, one night I had talked to him and
talked to him, afraid all the time' you I'M
Now, see here said I, there amt
nothing to suicide. Nothing at all, When
there's always some hope that things will
finished and done for A'' A''
Mind you, all the time ! was. dealing
a pain In my side with that appendicitis
could hardly stand it. but was ! grumpy
Was / complaining? Not at all. 1 keep
2 stift upper lip appendicitis t or no appsnn.
a wonder I don't go of the handle and COM
init suicide or matrimony or something
myself the way they treat me.
That fellow old me goodnight, gentle
went on upstairs, After a little / went
upstairs. too. He had the room next to
mine. No noise. All quiet and serene.
Hes gone to sleep said to myself.
door telling mo al about It. He had Written
IL. Come and attend to the final arrange
ments in regard to the remains he wrote,
and send word to my mother and sister
Calling himself the remains like that be-
fore he wasl
ADo you know what he had done7 Bought
q long gas tube-and gas not n 30 cents
then, either-fastened 1t to the jet, turned
all over himself, his head particularly,
taking the preoaution to tie the tube around
his arm 90 1t wouldn't hang loose before
he had inhaled a efficiency, and then
shufied OF.
But this was what struck me az the very
last straw. In the note he wrote he added
a postscript. I can't stand this Appendix
otis any longer. It's that that's made me
kill myself this postscript ran.
And me there ext door to him, half
dead with appendicitis!
Doesn't that strike you as Just about the
limit now?'
HER COAT or ARMS.
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