of his nervous system. Let us see how he attempts
to adjust himself to the situation; how he faces reality in his
psychosis.

He does just what primitive man has done and what the child of today
does. Not being able to face reality, he annihilates it and substitutes
for it a world created out of his fantasy, in which he plays every
conceivable role but the real one,--_i.e._, that of a patient accused of
murder. We will see that he does this by the mere fiat of his word--that
magic dexterity which has served so well primitive man in his struggles
with reality.

Let me reproduce some of his letters, of which he hands me at least one
daily. Here is one addressed to King George V:

DEAR SIR: I wish to return at once to England to the Cissel Hotel. You
told me not to take my wife back after the courts here had granted me
a divorce, so I look to you to just please come on here in person and
have me released, as the United States Senate has given permission for
you to come and release me. I am the young man that rescued you from
drowning at River View, and after telling you my case you advised me
to get a divorce. The guests from the hotel were wishing for me to
return when on here, as also my family.

Please find enclosed check for your expenses and give prompt action.

Very respectfully,
(W. H. M.) HOWARD HALL,
Washington, D.C.

The check:--

U. S. Treasury,
Pa. Ave. and 15th Street.

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 1, 1914.

Please pay to King George of England Ten Thousand Dollars for
professional services.
$10,000 W. H. M.

Thus by the mere stroke of the pen he, a poor mortal accused of murder
and indefinitely confined to an institution, succeeds in putting himself
in touch with King George, in drawing _ad libitum_ upon the United
States Treasury, in ridding himself of the wife whom he accuses of
infidelity, and in annihilating old age by styling himself "The young
man," when in reality he is fifty-seven years of age at present.

His belief in these statements is absolutely unshakable, notwithstanding
the fact that he retains a clear orientation concerning his immediate
environment, and thus has the actual state of his affairs constantly
forced to his attention.

His grandiose compensation has such dimensions as to gratify every
imaginable wish of his. He came here because he was divorce