Show o o 0 hk d by tho Y pert CHAPTER I Lose My Name and Identity andAm and Am Trapped in the Asylum Mademoiselle Vanderlyn we have avoided telling but you you would better get the news now and get over ovel the shock of It said Miss Dennis And she unfolded the papers for meLea me Lea Leave ve me I said Under her eyes I could not face what was to be revealed to me Staring at me In big black print was an account of a railroad railroad rail rail- road wreck In which Mrs Robert Hobert A. A Lorimer had been killed An engine had run Into the rear Pullman of a standing train and had ground half a a. hundred sleeping travelers travelers trav- trav elers to an unrecognizable pulp Some of the dead could never be recognized Gold fittings ot of a dressing case marked with Mrs Lorimers Lorimer's name had been collected from the wrecked coach and had been Identified by members of the Lorimer family as property or of the beautiful bride By a trick of fortune Chester the I chauffeur who had taken young Mrs 1 Lorimer to the train and the last I member ot of the tho household to see her had Drought brought hits his car back to the garage garI gar gar- I age e and had not been seen since I The man was owing melancholy toa to toa a recent attack of the flu his fellow I stated I I tore the meaning from the page then spelled out my name In the tho long list of the dead It looked so RO odd there there-I could hardly get past It to the cruel fate about crushed Eloise Its It's all my fault I I moaned I made yoU go I bought I II your tickets tickets' I And I think I might have becomE I as demented as I was supposed to tobe be If I 1 had given way to my erno- erno I I lions My usual Impulse to sudden action saved me I rang the bell for I Miss I Dennis tore oft off my silken I boudoir robe I Its It's an awful mistake I called to the tho nurse In a high and voice I must go home Hurry with my things please And order a car cartor for tor me The nurse came across the room without hurryIng at all picked up my robe and wrapped around meI meL me L I beg ot of you l not to get excited she said with exasperatIng Ing calmness I cannot help you to leave without an order from Dr Mandel I Send Dr Mandel to me at once I demanded He lie Is not in the building just now And even If he were he do nothing except by order of th the doctor who sent you here Get Dr I cried I am amnot amnot not crazy I am not Eloise Vanderlyn Vanderlyn Vander- Vander lyn I am m Mrs 1 Robert Lorimer The nurse smiled patiently as If she sho had a prefect understanding of my case and knew just exactly how to todeal todeal deal with and It-and me Her attitude e I I Irritated me almost beyond beron endurance You do not believe bellee me Miss Dennis Dennis Den Den- nis Find the tho head of this pia place co for forme me Still she only smiled and said I must Insist that you be reasonable reason reason- able You will reason reason-I realize If you will stop to think that the head of this Institution does not como come at patients a beck and call I am in full charge of your case l Vanderlyn- Vanderlyn But I tell you OU I am not that I 1 am Jane Lorimer Many of our patients have similar hallucinations hallucinations- ThIs is horrible I Interrupted It Is not possible that you have control control con con- over that me-that I your am onel onee Let me telephone to my husbands bus hus' bands band's mother or to Daddy I pleaded root Not without Dr Mandels Mandel's permission sion Moreover I read In an evening edition that Mrs Lorimer had gone with Mr Ir Lorimer and Dr to the place of the accident and that all Mr Robert Lorimer went back to trance ranee two days ago I will walk this home way and now lOW I said wrapping my gay Chinese Chi Chi- lese nese robe about mo me and starting for forthe the he door You cannot get out of this house houseas was as her answer Remember you are aren n an Insane asylum To 10 be continued l |