The Washington times., 1910-01-19

Z But he only shook his head hopelessly,
and muttered-
4 don't know
You know you were T. fight. don't
yo 2!I- SNAPPED, with irlpauence-
IS, yes; OF course" he answered
somewhat vaguely
Then, with whom did you ight?''
III don't remember"
Eether- You had a fight Your clothes
were hadly torn. You were covered
with blood-some OF # Is still on you
ana YET you mean 10 say you can { re-
member who your opponent wasT'
lie made no reply, but lay with throb-
I olnG mead close held between his hands
When I asked. suddenly throw
ing the question at him with quick force
! 'M here did you hghtT'
''WhereT' he repeated, lifting his bag
gard face for an instant from between
his palms why, on the dock u course
( Where eise2 1 was knocked into the
middle Of next week"
The dock? You remember that,
But HIS eyes had once more gone
blank and vacant. I could have shaken
/ him. as he sat there, stupid, inert
And, as 7 watched him, there came
into my memory with one OF those
whimsical associations that the mind 50
often links together the fragment or
lecture our old psychology professor
once made us write down for memo
living at his dictatiOu-
I Knocked into the MIDDLE or next
week the old psychologist had
drOued- ''au1 YOU doubtless think II a
mere silly IEure Of speech II Is not
Our language holds no more expressive
bit Of slang than that For person
violently deprived OF consciousness by
blow, or by other cause does not
lose the power OF CereDFaTlOu Tor sim
NV such -suace OF time as he chances
To be seuseless- Memory IS also apt 70
blot oUt-or to retain IN the most de-
fective fCrm-nauy events directly pre-
Cediu2 the moment OF UNCONSCIOUS lei's.
Thus a rugilis- who f. knocked out
in the fifteenth round or a uBnL VIII
often have no clear memory or any
thing that has occurred after the tenth
or twelfth round He recalls mere dis
jOiufed fragments Of later events Hence
when we say knocked mo the middle
Of next week we
Marx I interrupted myself n my
odd feat OF memorizing. you say your
head aches is any particular part or
FFe ran his fingers once more over
his tousled scalp. As he touched a spot
just above and behind the left ear he
WINGED I had my answer.
I'm sorry 7 said you were drunk. l
apoloElzed- You weren G But, i
added except for the shame OF It.
you might much better have been Here,
drink this It's aromatic spirits Of am
muuia mixed with a bracer- It'll clear
your head Then go into the bathroom
there and get o cold plunge and a rlb-
down After that you may remember
more"
He swallowed tbs drink. then started
for his bath AT the door he paused.
NY watch he said. suddenly 1T
fen ont % my pocket when
Ivy hen whEt2" Z uuericd as he paused
IL DONE remember he mUrmure1
duly. and il was a mistake anyhow
For there's the watch now, on that
table
As the water began spIashin- IN the
tub 7 went 10 the outer door OF our
room Always. when either Of AS was
home the old butler was wont 20 have
the morning papers on the little han
table just outside cur door. so that we
could glance them over as we dressed
past than the present scarce gave
newspapers a glance until evening when
she always spent two solid happy hours
over them So 7 felt we were not de-
uTLvluE her Of the first reading by
avaIllC ourselves Of the old servants
daily attention
This morning was a thousaudroId
ps Ders- IN fancy 7 saw al sorts OF
'S0readhead. tales Of our last nights
eSCauaGe sUeared over the entire front
sheets or both the papers we took
3 sUll survey OF each. however. show
% me that my fears We're ErOundless-
Not a line on the first page Of either
was about US
was laying the papers down with a
sigh Of relief. when a last page head
line 81 one Of them checked ne
read Il again. then the item beneath
Il
And I stood netrided. dazed. No. The
worst had not happened
worst"