Dreamland (attack in a hotel)

Joe and Irene were playing in a concert together, or maybe they were just showing their musical instruments together in an auditorium in the lower level of the hotel. I was going to join them, but had to get something in the hotel room first. It was on the 12th floor.

I got off the elevator with three men. A man behind me said, �who�s that first man?� I said, he�s the man who�s turning left at the end of the corridor, as he turned left and disappeared. �who�s the second man?� he said. �He�s the guy who�s not you,� I answered. �Who are you?� I continued. And now I forget the exact wording here, but there�s a term for thieves in a hotel, and he said �I�m the hotel thief� and he pulled a gun on me.

I stepped aside and grabbed his arm and flipped him onto the floor. We had a knockdown dragout fight and I ended up being stabbed in the back which didn�t harm me severely and I tied him up or at least his arms and was able to hold him for hotel security.

Then they had him and I was really ticked off and I tried several times to punch him in the torso but then I noticed that he was wearing some of the regalia of a Navy Seal, including a silver signet ring, a small circular uniform patch with a five-pointed embroidered star, a certain distinctive type of epaulet and two or three other patches, and a round hat, which had fallen on the ground.

This changed my impression of the man, I picked up his hat, placed it somewhere precisely, I don�t remember exactly where, said �there you go, Sir,� in a brusque and neutral tone, and walked off to get back to Irene and Joe at the display of orchestral instruments in the auditorium on the lower ballroom level of the hotel.

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