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Show -207- ness and death. eg a ao//e?e_ vn^ery^d^te. He r e c a l l e d the time when he had been working as a b e l l boy in Yellowstone Park, xihen he had gone as usual to axciken one of the guests who was t r a v e l l i n g x<jith a bus tour to t e ll him i t was time t o a r i s e for breakfast. The man had seemed asleep'; had not s t i r r e d when the boy opened the door and called to him. This was not uncommon, and the boy continued on? knocking a t other doors; but something inside himself nagged a t him, t o l d him t h a t a l l was not well in the room of this somewhat aged man. He x^ent back to the room several times, hoping t o discover signs t h a t the man was a s t i r , but there were none? What the Professor remembered best xas the great effort of w i l l i t took to knock again on the door, to open i t f i n a l l y and peer i n t o the room. The man xgas dead, and he obviously had been dead for several hours. His eyes x*ere open, and across his mouth had spread a misty cobweb, as though even h i s breath had stiffened at the end. The boy's i n t u i t i o n had been r i g h t , but he said nothing about i t . He x*ent t o the xroman who managed the lodge and told her x-jhat he had discovered. She t o l d him not to mention i t t o a s o u l . Nothing was done to the old man u n t i l a ll of the other guests had breakfasted and departed; then a hearse drove up? two men got out and closed the old man's eyes. They had more t r o u b l e with the mouth. They xtiped away the mist with a towel. Then, the boy thought, they must have broken the corpse's jaw before they got the mouth closed. |