CHAPTER XXXVII.

Become Desperately Ill--Nursed Back to Consciousness--Kindness of an Aged Spanish Couple--Belt with Money Entrusted to me Disappears--Intense Anxiety--Discover the Money--Great Suffering--Land at San Pedro--Left on the Beach--Drag Myself to the Shelter of an Old Wall--Kindness of a Spaniard and His Wife--A Terrible Night--Seek a Passage to Los Angeles with Freighters--Refusals--Meet a Kind Teamster--Reach Los Angeles--Dumped on the Street--Find Shelter, but a Chilly Welcome--Start Next Morning, Sick and Hungry, to Find a New Place--So Ill I have to Lie Down in the Street--Two Friends from San Bernardino--Am Told that I have the Smallpox--My Friends Give me Money and start in Search of a House where I can be Cared for--Failing to Secure a Room, they Engage the City Marshal to get a Place, and they Leave for San Bernardino--I wander for Shelter, but Doors are Closed, and People Avoid me--Lodge in a Doctor's Office while the Doctor is out--Scare the People by Shouting "Smallpox!"--The Doctor Returns but Leaves me in Possession.