Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1895-05-24 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

OUR NEW STORY.  The new departure of a Local Story has been No highly appreciated that we are arranging for another, particulars of which will be given M due rime. Donor the months which must necessarily intervene before ors arrangements can be completed we shall publish a MOST REMARK ABLE STORY on the lines of Hugh Conway's famous "Called Back," viz.,  "ONE OR lIINYO ;" THE MYSTERY OF A DOUBLE IDENTITY,  BY MIBB K CURTIS, Author of "Dr. Malchi," "Queen or Bondwoman," "Tamar the Witch," &c., &c. "ONE OR TWO" has, indeed, been pronounced by competent critics to whom the M. bas been submitted to he more (,riginal in conception than "Called Back." The author hails from Bristol, and her first novel, "Dr. hi al,hi," was published by Messrs. Ward, Lock Az B ,aded, after enjoying an eine, ordinary run as a newspaper aerial.  The following is a Synopsis ef the story : The hero of "One or Two," Keith Winstanley, young and clever surgeon practising in London. laws his way as he is returning from visiting one of his East End patients one foggy November night, and wandering into the enclosure of the E—Dock, hen suddenly attacked. by a stranger and flung into the water. He is rescued by a man (also a stranger to Winetanley) who, for his net, forfeits, to all outward seeming, his own life. Al.l extraordinary mental metamorphosis takes place is Winstanley after his mysterious adventure. Re not only breaks off his engagement with 'Anode), Faulder a girl for whom he had previously expressed great affection—but relinquishes his profession, and paints a strange picture (albeit he has never studied painting) which he calls "Judas," and which is exhibited at the Royal Academy. Be next makes the acquaintance of Paul Mardyke—a Socialistic demagogue—and falls madly in love with a girl whom he only knows by the name of Delilah. On being unexpectedly summoned to attend.* patient suffering from temporsty blindness, Won etauley discovers her to be the girl he racretly lone Deli:ah Mardyke— the only child of Paul Mardyke. The former, in her blindness, mistakes Wiustanley for her lover—Gabriel Gaunt—from whom her father's machinations have parted her, and Winstealey encouragee hen delusion and obtains hlardyke's sanction to his engagement with Delilah. Winstanlev's weird dual peiplexities increase, and he is visited by the " ego," or "double," of his unknown rescue!, who he begins to suspect must have been the mystenously.vanished Gabriel Gaunt. In ordcn to verify his suspicien, he seeks the aid of Madame Gouart, a telepathist and clairvoyant, who assures him that, despite all evidence to the contrari, his reaction still lives. Immediately after his interVel• with Madame Gouart. Winstanley meets his former sweetheart, Loveday Faulder, and hie old love for her is suddenly rekindled. Winetanley and Love day become reconciled, and devise the plot of soddenly confronting Gaunt with Delilah (who has recovered her sight), in the hope that the meeting will recall his lost memories. The experiment proves successful, and amongst the necessary explanations Mardyke confesses that he, under the impression Winetanley was Gaunt, attempted to murder the former. The mystery of the dual identity remains a psychical problem. Delilah and Leveclay wed the men of their choice, and, saving that Mardyke discards his daughter, the story ends happily.  A