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"Better take him up to Simkins the che a stretcher, they carried their unconscious

burden to the chemist's shop

"Why, let entleo home, and he said he

would; but I noticed he turned doards the quay; poor fellow, bad

case, I' for typhoid

fever, and he's about right, I think"

"What shall we do with him?" said the sailor "See if you can find a

card or letter in his pockets? Nothing," he added, as together they

searched Cardo's pockets, "not a card, nor a letter, nothing but this

bunch of keys, and soer's identity, except the

"Here's C W on his handkerchief--Charles Williaht to be attended to at once, if he ain't dead already," said

another

"Yes, a good thing the hospital is so near," said the chemist "You

had better leave his money here, and tell Dr Belton that you have done

so My brother is his assistant I daresay we shall hear ently, that's it," and Cardo was carried

out of the shop to the hospital in an adjoining street Here, placed

on a bed in one of the long wards, doctors and nurses were soon around

him; but Cardo lay white and still and unconscious

One of the bearers had rave and interested as he applied himself to the examination of the