N.D.E. Gotten in the way of criminals in a tenement eastern city the poisoned railroad worker survives a casual ride to hospital for intravenous feeding and rest but otherwise left to his fate while waiting in line for x-rays faints dead in the wheelchair then, rising above his head, sees the grumpy nurses trundle him by gurney to wait in Emergency where the prone position restarts his heart, returning his body to how many more years of misadventure?

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