Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-12-31
Continued from last week.


months! What is it? Has Momsey
-"
mo, no, dearest" Ellen treasured
him. "She is all right"
"Then why isn't she here?"
But she has not yet returned from
the Springs" replied Mrs. Kirkland.
''She is down at the Springs"
Don't YOU remember"
MY dear" said the physician, "you
and the girls forget that he knows
nothing of what has happened to his
other personality. nothing whatever.
Other personality?" sharply quer-
led the young man. "What do you
mean, DOctOr?"
Keep calm. my boy. 1t is not
unusual accommodating to worry
about--a condition easily durable
with proper treatment. You may find
it difficult to believe. but ever since
we met YOU at the station
MET me? | didn't see YOU. i
'IS your other personality" explain
ed the physician.
"And took YOU home to dine with
us" added his wife.
You didn't remember even me- re-
preached Ellen.
''NOr me, when doctor brought you
home" chimed in Amy.
He stared at Doctor Kirkland in
CONSERVATION. "Heavens. You all
talk as if DeusionS more de-
luSiOnS, when | was so sure. :"
''Now. now. my boy; there is moth
ing serious about your condition." re-
piled the physician. ct is only that"
More delusions. muttered the
frightened young man. ITS all a
daze-a dream-ever since [ gave that
attendant the slip caboose,
sleeper daycoach-a blurred tumble.
Yet it SeemN-yes, I did take the Park
Hill car. Then the park; thpn-but
that's all dark-nothing till | was "
ing there in the old brick-yard pit, the
blood trickling down my face, but my
head clear"
"Oh YOU fell you hurt your head"
cried Ellen. LET us see! Papa look
at it,!
"But it's nothing, nothing at all,
darling" replied her lover. cor rath-
err, its evGrything-the luckiest bump
that ever happened. / don't know but
it must have Jared loose something
in my brain. Ever since l came to, my
head has been as clear as crystal. The
very first moment I recognized the pit
as the place in which"
Bump. shock" doomed Doctor
Kirkland. Proves my diagnosis; func-
tiOnal lesion, or possibly a blood clOt-
physical shock My boy you're all
right nOw-nOthing to fear. All that
is past-y0ur amnesia, dissertation,
this secondary personality that has
caused you to fail to recognize US all
these days
Butt have not failed to recognize
you. | knew YOU all at once"
why. Will" replied Amy. Don't
YOU really remember? You've been
with us ever since two evenings before
last"
At the statement his face became
vivid with renewed alarm and CON
sternation. He thrust the girl from
him, to grope desperately inside his
waistcoat The others S-arpd appre-
hensively at these signs of frenzy
From his bosom he jerked out a large
bulging 'earth-stained envelope and
sawed it frantcalIy at Doctor Kirk
land
Look! look!" he painted. Quick!
Tie physician seized and ripped
open the envelope. Hey? what?" he
observation-disclosures. =. The bonds'
"Aa-h Then they are real
real as you, darling Ellen!"
The girl met the eager lips that
bent down to her upturned face. Eyes
yes, dearest" she whispered. 'NOw
you're your real seIf-all is real ~
The physicians lips were moving in
rapid count of the bonds His voice
became audible: seven. eight nine
ten-ten, everyone for ten
thousand" His voice doomed JOY
Ously: "One hundred thousand. All
there! the full amount! not one lost y
THANK Heaven" cried the young
man. THAT saves me. All
those months, those dreary awful
mOnths-worry' worry, worry; crop
ing, trying to remember. Yet it was
there, the memory, down under.
knew it was there. 1t was that which
compelled me to keep trying to escape
from them-time after time. And
when at last l did, it led me in that
half-blind daza all the way home-it
led me to the pit"
"The pit?' questioned Mrs. Kirk
land.
"In the abandoned brickyard beyond
City Park. The moment
came to, and looked around, l rec
ognized the place. | went straight to
the hole where l had hidden the
bonds"