Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-01-22
(, A Story of Twins.

ordinary fraternal affection that a
man will suffer any amount for his
twin. You have a twin brother, so
you ought to know If this is true. How
is it?"
you mean suffer things willingly 2"
o course. Why do you ask that?"
well, sometimes a fellow will suffer
for another when he doesn't want ton
81 don't understand you"
"It's this way: I'm fond of Dan lust
as you say twins are, but l want you
to understand thing-the next time
Dan gets sick and has to go to a hos
pital l propose to let the doctors and
the nurses take care of him. As for
going to him with pigs feet or jelly
or any other good things, I'm not going
to do it. He a get on without me If
he is my twin brother"
Something unpleasant must have
happened while Dan was in the hos
pital last summer"
Something happened! 1 should
smilel"
"Well, smile then; don't look as If
you'd like to carve somebody and tell
me about it"
"Well, not long after the surgeons
had been carving Dan l went to see
him. The door of the hospital being
open, l walked in, expecting to see a
| janitor or somebody connected with
the institution who'd show me to Dams
room. Nobody being around just then,
l walked to the rear of the building,
looking this way and that for an at
tendant, but not finding any 1 stopped
and exclaimed to myself:
"'Well I'll be jingedr
Suddenly / heard a woman's voice:
"'Heavens! There's my patient walk
ing about deliriousi' There was a
smash of crockery, and, turning, l saw
a nurse looking at me with horror, a
heap of broken dishes at her feet,
which she had just dropped from a
tray. Another nurse came out of a
door and, seeing me, seemed to recog-
nize me, though I'd never seen her be-
fore, and the two made a dive for
me.
I'm a peaceable fellow and can be
led like a lamb, especially by a won
an or even two women If they are
pretty, and both of these were, but
I'll be jinged If l could stand having
each one of them seize me by a wrist
and attempt to force me up a stair
way. l resisted. One of them stepped
to an electric button and pressed 1t.
1t must have sounded a general alarm,
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direction and another from another,
and the nurse who'd dropped the
dishes said:
"'Take him up to No. IA. When I
came down to get his dinner he goI
up, dressed and came downstairs. I'll
get discharged for this. Heavens,
There comes the house surgeonl Put
him In here
"Do you know, those two buffers
just picked me up and hustled me
into a room close by, while l kicked
and struck out like q maniac. They
put me on a bed, and one of them held
me down by main force while the
other rushed out for something. The
nurse-mg nurse, you know-poured
Jill ALL toStiiS stun NCHh ny
throat, and in a few minutes the man
who had gone out came back with a
chunk of ice and put 1t at the top of
my head. Then they got hot water
bags and put 'em to my feet, and all
stood round looking scared to death.
"Well, l was getting madden and
madden every minute. Now, look
a-here,' l shrieked, you just let me
up or when l do get out of this I'll
murder every mothers SOL or daugh-
ter of your
"'Give him another dose, Miss Wal
kerr said one of the men.
"Miss Wa,ker-my nurse, you know
she poured out another dose, and
just as she was about to put it down
my throat 1 made a big effort, freed
one of my fists and sent the glass and
contents flying toward the ceiling.
"'Mercy mel cried my nurse. why
did 1 ever leave him? It's a sure case
of brain fever
"Just at that moment something pop
ped into my head. I wondered why ]
hadn't thought of it before. They had
mistaken me for Dan.
"'See here, you people, you're bark
ing up the wrong tree, aren't you? Do
you think I'm Dan MaloneY
"'Funny,' remarked one of the men,
how people who are off their heads
always think they're some one else
"'You blankety blank foolsl You
go to Dams room and see if you don't
find him there. I'm his twin brother.
l came to see him.
"The two nurses began to look at
each other, the two men pricked up
their ears, and then my nurse said to
the other one:
"'Run up and see.'
$50 she did and in a minute came
back into the room with a grin on her
face that looked like the cat that ate
the canary.
"'He's safe in bed she giggled.
""Thank heaven! sobbed my nurse.