Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10


and Nance Belden, otherwise
- personality B, the abnormal, had
a walked through it and emerged
Penelope Gatlin, or personality A, the
| normal. Also, she knew now that Pene-
, lope Gatlin probably had more or less
amnesia for her former personality as
Nance Belden. Lanny had heard DR..
Burt discuss such rare cases and she
glowed with pride in the knowledge that
at last he had secured a perfect spect-
men.
'I decided we wouldn't have broiled
lamb chops, Lanny," the girl went on
brightly $50 I've made a ragout."
you mean, in good old Americanese,
you've concocted an Irish stew"
you're so amusing, Lanny. A stew,
of course The difference between a
stew and ragout is entirely geographic.
A ragout in France, an Irish stew in
the United States"
Have you lived in France?"
Eight years, Lanny. Went to school
in Switzerland and learned French
there"
Are your people French?"
ST think was there alone" The girl
appeared puzzled. Il don't remember
my mother, but had father. He was
such dear, but he's dead"
Were you happy there?"
mo, was perfectly miserable"
"Why?"
Because my father wasn't with me-
We'd been such pals"
But you must have lived with some
body"
"There was Laurette, the cook, and
Babette, the maid"
Did you graduate?"
mo, I left school when father died.
He was killed in a motor accident en-
route to Europe. I've always had
feeling he was coming over to see his
Penelope. He loved me very much,
Lanny. He was adorable. He used
to tell me that I was all that made
his life bearable. Somebody forget
who-told me he wasn't my real father,
that 1 was a founding he adopted: l
wouldn't believe that at first, but
when read his will knew 1t was So"
What sort of woman was his wife
or did he have one?"
1T haven't the slightest idea, but I
remember the will stated very positively
that he had settled with her, that she
had accepted the settlement in full
satisfaction of her dover rights, and
he made my income from the trust just
sufficient to support me decently until
should come of age. He said in his
will that he did this not because OF
any lack of affection for me, but be-
lowance, his divorced wife would have
control of 1t during my minority. He
must have despised her"
well, if she could have control of
your income during your minority. she
must have been your adopted mother,
the practical Lanny reasoned. And
you must have lived with her following
the divorce. That's why you didn't see
your father in Europe. You must have
Laurette, the cook, and Babette, the
maid, argue an establishment. Do you
remember everything that has hap
pened to you since that day Dan Nc
Namara brought you to DR.. Burt'S OF
f1ce?"
Perfectly"
ever have funny thoughts about it?"
The girl stared at her shrewdly.
How strange that you should ask that
question, Lanny. 1 do have funny
thoughts. Sometimes I'm Mortified at
the memory and could die of shame:
at other times it seems perfectly all
right, but those are the times when
I've been nervous and sleepleSS; some
times think there's something wrong
with me, because people often refer to
me as Nance Belden and to things
I've done and which I know very well
! haven't done. And yet 1T seems to
me sometimes as if I had-just a
wrath of memory, like an old dream.
But still I'm strong and healthy"
But little given to spells of nerv-
ousnesS?"
I'm moody" The girl seemed in
terested in herself to an unusual de-
gree. Some days like to do things
that are perfectly intolerable to me
on other days. Some days I'm so
democratic I could go out to dinner
with q garbage man-other times