estions on widely different subjects.

At last he turned to the house physicians and said: "It is my opinion
that when this man first entered the hospital he was merely suffering
from a simple case of malaria and not enteric fever, as you have
diagnosed. Since then his kidneys have become affected, and he now
suffers from both malaria and lumbago. For the fever, give him ten
grains of quinine three times a day for two days and gradually diminish
the quantity until the fever abates entirely. Begin to feed him after
the second day. For the lumbago, give him at least two quarts of lithia
water to drink each day. Now as to the man's mental calibre, I find him
perfectly sane and normal. But owing to a fracture of the skull
sustained by him some time in the past, the two sides of his brain have
become separated, causing two distinct personalities to exist. When one
side of the brain works, the other side remains dormant, and vice versa.
He likewise possesses a dual memory, and is only capable of recollecting
events as they happen separately and distinctly, according to the side
of the brain which takes the impression. Consequently, this man may have
lived a perfectly sane life during the past twenty-one years, of which
he claims to have no recollection. He may at any time in the future
resume either personality by some slight mental disturbance, but his two
personalities will always remain as strangers to each other."

Having thus delivered himself, the doctor, who apparently was bent upon
making a few more thousand dollar calls that day, hurriedly, but with
great dignity, strode out of the room, closely followed by the other
physicians.

After they had departed, and we were alone, Arletta pulled a chair up
close to the head of my bed, and, looking steadily and earnestly into my
eyes, said: "I sincerely hope, Mr. Convert, that you may never again
resume your other personality."

CHAPTER XXVI

The change from a charity patient to the highest paid patient in the
Ruff Hospital bore magical results, and I was soon on the road to
recovery. The quinine knocked all the fever out of me within two days.
The food I was given to eat after fasting two months, began to
strengthen me at once and within ten days I was able to walk about the
room. Arletta never failed to visit me at least once each day, and on
some days, two and three times. With each visit she brought flowers,
fruit, or some little delicacy, and I was not long in disco