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The Eagle’s Heart

CHAPTER XX
20/39

Bring me some water--I'm burning dry." "Now keep quiet," said the policeman; "you're sick as a horse." When the doctor came the policeman turned Harold over to him.

"This is a case for St.Luke's Hospital, I guess," he said as he went out.
The doctor briskly administered a narcotic as being the easiest and simplest way to handle a patient who seemed friendless and penniless.
"The man is simply delirious with fever.

He looks like a man emaciated from lack of food.

What do you know about him ?" The landlord confessed he knew but little.
The doctor resumed: "Of course you can't attend to him here.

I'll inform the hospital authorities at once.


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