One night,a little before nine o’clock,Dr Johnson was answering a telephone call. He was asked to go and operate on a very sick boy at once.The boy was in a small hospital in Glens Falls,sixty miles from Dr Johnson’s city--Albany.The boy had himself in a traffic accident. His life was in danger,but his family was poor that they couldn’t the doctor anything, After hearing this ,Dr Johnson started to head to the hospital at once.He thought that he could get to the hospital before 12 o’clock . A few minutes later,the doctor’s car stop for a red light at a crossing. Suddenly a man in an old black coat opened the door of the car and got in.
“Drive on,”he said,”I’ve a gun.”
“I’m a doctor,said Johnson.” “I’m on my way to a hospital to operate on a very sick…”
“Don’t ,”said the man in the old black coat.”Just drive.”
A mile out of the town he ordered the doctor to stop and get out. Then the man drove on The road.The doctor stood for a moment in the snow.Half an hour later Dr Johnson found a telephone and called a taxi.At the he learnt that that the next train to Glens Falls would not leave 12 o’clock.
It was about o’clock in the morning when the doctor arrived at the hospital in Glens Falls. “The boy just an hour ago !” said the nurse. “I’ve my best. It took me about five hours to come here from my home, because I meet a….” Suddenly he saw the man in the old black coat, his head in his hands.”Mr Shute,” said the nurse to the man, “This is Dr Johnson. He has come all the way from Albany to try to your boy.”
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