``At the hospital. Two men were great friends; they lunched together, worked together and played together: they were inseparable. One of them went home for a few days, and in his absence the other got blood-poisoning at a post-mortem and forty-eight hours later died. The first came back: he'd made an appointment to meet his friend in the P.M. room; when he went in he found him lying on the slab naked and dead.

``It gave me quite a turn'' he said when he told me.''

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