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technical one from DIR. Hatherton, which
l need not inclose, contain all the
knowledge that | have of what | did
during that month which was totally
lost out of my life. The doctor ex-
plains in scientific terms that which he
docs not himself pretend to understand,
befogging himself and trying to befog
me after the manner of medical men.
All he can tell, and that he declares
positively, is exactly what is indicated
by all the other witnesses who have
written out their statements. 1t is sim
ply that the blow on my head when |
fell from my horse stunned me and left
me in a condition in which all my fac
ulties We're unimpaired save that Of
memory, or rather casualty, as the
psychologists used to call it. That re-
manned absolutely or almost absolutely
dormant and inactive, 50 that | had no
memory of anything whatever until
was struck again by the swinging door
almost precisely on the same spot did
not seem to remember anything that
had happened before that month, and
after l received the second blow re-
membered nothing that had happened
ceased to be a man on October nineteen
and became an autOmaton. On NOvem-
Der twenty-one | became a human being
again, with no memory of having been
an autOmaton.
The question as to what did with my
fortune was formerly the only one that
bothered me. Now am confronted
with a far more serious problem. What
under heaven may have done in the
course Of that month that made Mrs.
Gregory speak to me in the extraordinary
way that she did | was never able to i'm
agine. Neither had ever considered it
o. great importance that should know.
But in the light of what the inspector
said to me it seems to me most extreme
ly important. Evidently he knows some
thing of my past which do not know.
must have been thrown in contact with
this lady in some way, entirely incom-
prehensible TO me, during that month.
Tie statement of the hotel detective
would seem to dispose of this, since he
says that he lost sight of me only on the
two days on which so mysteriously dis,
posed of my money, but l am not dis
posed to believe him fully. When 7
asked him for his statement / very in
cautiously specified the two days men
toned, telling him | was anxious to
know all did on those days especially.
believe that if | had specified any other
days he would have acknowledged that
he did not know what | did on those
days. In other words, do not believe
that he watched me as closely as he de-
clares he did.
What, then, may l not have done I'M
consciously: What fatal web of circun-
stantial evidence may not be woven
around me: | do not know, and con-
fesS that | am very anxious about it.
having, as said, always looked upon
evidence Of that kind with u horror that
now seems to have partaken of the ma
ture of a premOnition.
| should explain right here that when
! discovered the loss of my fortune |
took pains to oDl?tCrate my former self
had Iepugnance that was perhaps
morbid to being the hero of Il sensation,
and | therefore drew out of the bank all
that had left, which was a small bal
ance Of less then thousand dollars. and
leaving the Castle hotel dropped my
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