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A few hours later, I happened on him a few 

 blocks from my office "gloriously betanked;" he 

 could barely follow the sidewalk. 



"Hello Doc," he yelled at me; "say, this is 

 some burg all right, all right. Say, Doc, I'm 

 going to stay right here; put up a big inflrma- 

 tory here, Doc; be rich in two years. Fine 

 people; got the money too." He ran off a couple 

 of yards of this line of talk and I had some dif- 

 ficulty changing the subject. 



I reminded him of the trip to Las Cruces and 

 suggested that we look up his wife and kids. 

 "By George," he says, "that's right, Doc; say, I 

 forgot all about them." He was sure he knew 

 exactly where the hotel was and started right out 

 to go there. We walked for over an hour, from 

 one hotel to another, but we could not find the 

 right one. Asa would stand in front of each 

 place, swaying about and "sizing it up ;" then he 

 would look in the door, come out again, "size" 

 the building up some more, and then he would 

 say, "Nope; that ain't quite the place. Looks 

 pretty near like it though." Then we would 

 go on to the next one. Finally we came to a 

 boarding house, quite a piece away from the 

 downtown hotels. "Here she is, Doc," Asa 

 yelled; "now we got her. I told you I knew 

 where it was; come on in." 



Arrived inside, we found the wife and 

 "kiddos" howling; they feared Asa had gone and 

 left them. Also, they had not had a bite to eat 

 since the supper on the evening before. This 

 "got my goat" and I gave him the benefit of a 



