Gracious grace

Poor fellow who stumbled at the inn, too drunk to take care. First, we are led to suspect that he was abandoned by someone who may have taken advantage of his insobriety, and knocked him down. The helpful men who finds him on the floor, humiliated in the lavatory, do not know him at all. Neither does the other people at the inn, and someone gets the police. Well, a barman did serve him a small rum. The constable is more interested in taking a formal report, than in really helping the poor fellow, but someone bends down to inspect him, and makes him come back to life, with some brandy as first aid medication. Now a firned of his enters stage, brings him into a car and home to his wife, apparently not shocked by his poor condition, as she must have seen this before, she just puts him to bed, a practical woman she is. Drunkards should be taken well care of, and his friend has a plan. Don't you worry, he says to the wife, we'll get a new man out of him! Some days later, he arrives with two good men, to vist the patient who is still in bed, all that we know is that he has bit a small piece of his tongue, I may think that he is actually enjoying the nursing attention from his wife? Each of these three men are introduced to the reader by their special character; one in particular knows this problem with heavy drinking from inside, as his wife has this terrible habit.

This is as far as I read yesterday; now I'm going read next part of the story, and find out if they will succeed in getting this poor man back on rails, with a healed tongue and mind?