The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-02-15

tense interest.
What name shall say?"
Lady Frances Derwent."
The nurse was thrilled. and her
patient went up in her estimation.
She guided frankie upstairs into
room on the first floor. r..
you've a visitor to see you, Mr..
Jones. Now who do you think it is?
Such a nice surprise for you"
All this in the bright" manner
usual with nursing homes.
GOSH" said Bobby, very much
surprised. eff it isn't Frankie!"
"Hullo. Bobby. I've brought the
usual flowers. Rather a graveyard
suggestion about them, but tn e
choice was limited"
"Oh. Lady Frances" said the
nurse. they're lovely. I'll put them
into water"
She left the room.
frankie sat down in an obvious
visitors" chair. well. Bobby" she
said. whats all this?"
you may well ask" said Bobby.
I'm the complete sensation of the
place. Eight grains of morphia, no
less. They're going to write about
me in the Lancet and the B.M.J."
whats the B.M.J.?" interrupted
frankie.
1.-THE British Medical Journal"
"All right Go ahead. Rattle OF
some more initials"
"Do you know, my girl, that half
a grain is fatal dose?I ought to be
dead about sixteen times over. It's
true that recovery has been known
after sixteen grains-still, eight is
pretty good, don't you think? I'm
the hero of this place. They've never
had case like me before"
How nice for them!"
isn't It? Gives them something
to talk about to all the other pa.
tients."
THE nurse re-entered, bearing
L lilies in vases.
tits true, isn't 1t, nurse?" de-
manded Bobby. You've never had
case like miner"
"Oh. you oughtn't to be here at
all" said the nurse. ain the church
yard, you ought to be. But it's only
the good die young, they say" She
giggled at her own wit and went out.
There you are" said Bobby.
You'll see, shall be famous all
over England"
He continued to talk. ANY signs Of
inferiority complex that he had dis.
played at his last meeting with
frankie had now quite disappeared.
He took a firm and egotistical pleas
ure in recounting every detail Of
his case.
That's enough" said frankie,
quelling him. 81 don't really care
terribly for stomach pumps. To lis
ten to you one would think nobody
had ever been poisoned before"
Jolly few have been poisoned
with eight grains of morphia and
got over it." Bobby pointed out.
Dash 1t all. you're not sufficiently
impressed"
Pretty sickening for the people
who poisoned you," said frankie.
II know. Waste of perfectly good
morphia."
at was in the beer, wasn't IT,"
"Yes. You see, someone found me
sleeping like the dead, tried to wake
me and couldn't. Then they got
alarmed, carried me to farmhouse,
and sent for a Doctor"
81 know all the next part" said
frankie hastily.
"At first they had the idea that
I'd taken the stun deliberately.
Then when they heard my story,
they went of and looked for the
beer-bottle and found 1t where I'd
thrown 1t and had it analyzed-the
dregs OF It were quite enough for
that apparently"
mo clue as to how the morphia
got in the bottle?"
None whatever. They've inter.
viewed the pub where l bought 1t,
and opened other bottles, and
everything's been quite all right"
Someone must have put the stuff
In the beer while you were asleep?"
That's il. I remember that the
top wasn't still sticking properly"
frankie nodded thoughtfully.
We'll" she said, at shows that
what I said in the train that day
was quite right"
What did you say?"
THAT that man-Pritchard-had
been pushed over the Cliff"
THAT wasn't in the train. You
said that at the station" said
Bobby feebly.
"Sama thfnRn