HE WANTED COMPANY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9091, 10 March 1908, Page 7

HE WANTED COMPANY.

Shortly after two o’clock one biting winter morning a physician drove four miles in answer to a telephone call. On his arrival the man who had summoned him said : “Doctor, I ain’t in any particular pain, but somehow or other I’ve got a feeling that death is nigh. ’ ’ The doctor felt the man’s pulse and listened to his heart. “Have you made your will?” he asked finally. The man turned pale. “Why, no, doctor. At my age—O doc, it ain’t true, is it? It can’t he true ’ ’ “Who’s your lawyer?” “Higginbotham, but ” “Then you’d better send for him at once.” The patient, white and trembling, went to the telephone. “Who’s your pastor” continued the doctor, “The Rev. Kellogg M, Brown,” mumbled the patient. “But, doctor,” do you think ” “Send for him immediately. Your father, too, should bo summoned ; also your— —’ ’ “Say, doctor, do you really think I’m going to die?” The man began to blubber'softly. The doctor looked at him hard. “No, I don’t,” he replied grimly, “There’s nothing at all the matter with you. But I’d hate to be the only man you’ve made a fool of on a night like this.”