The Raymer enterprise., 1920-08-05

want you 70 take my CrOix d.
Guerre. :. When I 60 nowhere"
Even when speech returned To the
Individual he was u man of curt re-
sponses and st!nging monosy yllubles-
problem Il the surgeons. q problem
to the nurses and (if the expression In
his eyes meant anything). an over.
whelming problem to himself. II sp-
peared that. after all. It wasn't simply
women that he hated--It was the uni.
verse.
His military book implied that he
had no parents. no close relations. no
friends to notify. no fixed abode. He
received no visitors. no letters, no
packages freighted with magical de-
light. But to those who pitied him In
all his loneliness he was utterly con.
temptuous: he even went 80 fur as to
nlllp sldelong to the door q religious
post card rendered him BY a devout
nnd sentimental passer-by. and he did
II In her presence. unashamed. Later.
when smiling orderly picked up that
post card and tucked II under his Dill.
low he was no less contemptuous IN
permitting II to remain. But the one
stupendous fact which. more than all
else combined. made him an object Of
bewildered curiosity was this-that Of
the scores and scores Of men with
head-wounds who were reborn at Neu.
lily that spring and summer, he was
the only one who had never asked for
q mirror.
This. Of itself, wouldn't have been
astonishing as long Us he delayed in
the preliminary stages Of recovery. for
now and then man with head.wounds
proves to be representative; but In
the second stage II was remarkable.
and In the third stage II was unique.
The stan held II to be extraordinary
from a social as well as from path.
illogical viewpoint. that q man 80 ter.
ribly disfgured should have no Inter.
est--not even q morbid interest-In
his own appearance. And II wasn't
that the Individual was simply Indlf-
ferent to the mirror; on the contrary.
his aversion to II was active and ener.
getic: he fiinched, and motioned II
frantically away as though the mere
conception Of seeing himself as others
saw him was too repellant. and too
unthinkable to endure.
There came 4 day 10 April when q
photograph was requested Of him.
Surely he knew where there was q
likeness Of himself. didn't hei His
old passport photograph. which had
mysteriously disappeared. Or
The Individual glanced up from his
present task: the wound ln his arm
was still annoying and be was alb
sorbed In learning to write with his
left hand.
"What forf' be muttered.
"Why." said the nurse, cheerfully.
"for a model. To help the surgeons.
They'll take your picture for q guide
and make you look almost exactly the
way you did before"
The individual from America sat up
straight, % that the nurse was startled
BY his animation. which was without
4 parallel In his local history.
"Whati" be said.
Certainly !" The nurse spoke In
the tone one uses to an ailinG child.
"You'vs known that haven't your
Ths Indlvidual's voice was Quserly
unmanageabls and strained. "You
mean to ~ they're going to maks me
look the vay =. Could they d tAati
ceuld theyf Even sewr'
why, II eeurss." che assured him.
"You asvsf teld me thati" ~ said.
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