' The article is
published anonymously; but the character of the periodical in which
it appears is a sufficient guarantee of the trustworthiness of the
statement. I was so far influenced by the testimony thus cited, that I
drove to Sandsworth and examined the case myself."
"Did the examination satisfy you?"
"Thoroughly. When I saw him last night, the poor boy was as sane as I
am. There is, however, a complication in this instance, which is not
mentioned in the case related in print. The boy appears to have entirely
forgotten every event in his past life, reckoning from the time when the
bodily illness brought with it the strange mental recovery which I have
mentioned to you."
This was a disappointment. I had begun to hope for some coming result,
obtained by the lad's confession.
"Is it quite correct to call him sane, when his memory is gone?" I
ventured to ask.
"In this case there is no necessity to enter into the question," the
doctor answered. "The boy's lapse of memory refers, as I told you, to
his past life--that is to say, his life when his intellect was deranged.
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