Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-23
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BESEIN 1tEAiE lODAY
Loring Ran ger offers a hundred
thousand dollars reward for the re-
turn of his missing daughter, Hope.
He is assisted in his search by his
attorney Eustice Highly, and by his
lifelong friend, Juarez Charlie, ad
venturer.
Charlie tells l4oring that he feels
certain that Hope is held prisoner
~ g group of criminals called the
Combine" A message comes to
anger telling him to buy a hat
Ilr Hope and leave it at specified
sace. Frank Bryan is Rangers
private secretary.
George Kelsey is detained at a
private sanitarh1m and he meets
and visits with a girl who closely
resembles u nurse named Copleyi
DIR. ISristow is the superintendent
of the institution
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A responsive shiver passed over
her shoulders.
<A "There was no use acting as if l
= Wdnt taken it all in," Kelsey re-
%1med; land 1 didn't hesitate to ex-
Epress myself. L was leaving at once.
1 / told him: didn't care to be hooked
up with a bunch of crooks. Bristow
didn't bluster any; just smiled in
that maddening, superior way of his
and when finished, oondescended to
explain. He had been humoring a
lunatic, he said; by experience
should have taught me the necessity
of sometimes doing that. The story
of the stolen jewels was pure demen
tia, but interesting as an example of
unusual conference.
'eHe made the thing plausible
enough, but it didn't sink in as he
expected. I'd heard the two of them
q talk. There wasn't any make-believe
about it; they were right down to
"a business. Actual names and ad-
"a dresses Were given and written down
81 And the alleged patient was allowed
IA to depart, free.
"a $50 L stood my ground and bluntly
NJ told him that | didn't consider the
~ circumstances open to misinterpre-
"A tation.
% "Bristow began tapping on the
# arm of his chair, but he was as cool
.ES as ever. 1t looks as if your useful
# ness here is over he agreed. L re-
gret l.. You would have been valu-
M able man.
Speak a little lower" she cau-
@ toned
's& 'Thanks; I forgot for the moment
s Well left ian then and went up to
# my room. I've told you how l at
tempted to get away and failed.
81 After that, l tried to get to Bristow
"a again, but he wouldn't see me. So I
turned to Morton"
"Morton? ?" she repeated interroga-
tivelv
"Yes; the other house physician.
les quiet, non-committal sort of u
fellow. | didn't go into the whole
5 thin with him: just told him I'd
had a falling out with Bristow and
q ,resiened, but that when I attempt-
ShtSdl to leave the place I'd been pre-
! i"He didn't show any surprise.
q fe'd been primed. just listened,
AIhd said now and then. I'm sorry,
III ! Too bad L didn't get his atti-
de at the time. NV idea then was,
Nat he was too keen on his job to
he sides. But / gained a clearer
Light on him when L finally talked
to Bristow.
"He was all ready for me, and
didn't waste any time in laying his
cards on the table.
F Its for your own sake that ]
have taken these restrictive mea-
sures he said in his best profess
sional manner. Tn not easily fool
t ed, yet L confess | had no suspicious
of you. But your violent outbreak
N and the persistent way you have
IS clung to your delusions leave only
3# one course open to me. Do you re-
# member any great shock or accident
# in your life?'
II saw where he was heading and
"a boiled over.
"'No shock like finding you a
n scoundrel and theft" [ jumped up
N from my chair. OF course l see Your
game, Doctor. know too much for
my health, and therefore YOU are
prescribing a rest for me here under
your eye
He looked at me without moving
a muscle, patient still, but little
stern.
In the last few days he said
I've gathered considerable informa-
ton about your past life. You are,
I find an Australian, an actor born
in Melbourne. Your name is not Kel
sey but Haworth, James Haworth.'
"That was bit too thick, and I
told him So The devil listened to me
quietly, never altering his express
sion. He was the grave, kind mcdi-
cal adviser
"'You say "What rot" and say 1t
1,lite seriously he came back at me;
for yours is a case of duel person.
ality. You started life as a young
physician. Something occurred, a
shock of some sort. Your secondary
personality asserted itself, and you
became an actor. This continued for
a time and then the doctor person.
alitv reasserted itself and you came
to iris country. In neither of these
states is there any remembrance of
n the other. There may eventually oc-
.1xAr-and I think l can help you in
th crisis--a struggle between the
rWo personalities, and it will then de
volve upon you to decide which one
you wish to retain. definitely putting
the other away. In the meantime, ]
feel it my duty to keep you under
observation.
While he talked Kelsey was aware
that the girl was following his mar
rative with an almost feverish in
tentness and he wondered again at
her selfcontrol.
Careful" he warned quickly.