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THE VICTIM OF AMNESIA By - The Dictum of Amnesia. The sergeant peered over the tops of his steel-rimmed spectacles. He twirled the huge blotter around on tha slanting desk before him, and dipped ills pen in the inkwell. Ills bushy eyebrows drew together In a portentous frown, which could not, however, entirely hide the good humor in Ids blue eyes. "What's tho charge against the prisoner? ’ he asked. Officer McCarthy grinned, "There ain't none, Sergeant Ryan." "Ah, the gentleman dropped in for a little sicial relaxation? Or is he here to make complaint against someone else? Introduce us, Officer McCarthy." "That's just it." said the police man. "He don't know who lie Is." Sergeant Ryan adjusted ills glasses. Me shifted in his chair that he might get a better view of McCar thy's companion. He saw a well-built man of medium height, with extreme ly keen gray eyes. They were deep set below a well-shaped forehead above which grew black hair that was as straight as an Indian's. In deed, the sharp-edged, hipfli bridged nose, and the high cheeck-bone bore out the impression that here was some one in whose veins ran the hlood of the American aborigines. Ills mouth, though wide enough for good humor, was thin-ligpei). His chin was bony and aggressive. And Ids skin had that leathery look which comes to those who live and labor out-of-doors. But his clothing seemed to have nothing to do with the plains or hills from which he might reasonably have been assumed to came. For an expert tailor had cut the blue flannel lounge suit which he wore; an Eng lish tailor, Sergeant Ryan decided. And the slightly brogued low tan shoes could have come from the Bri tish Isles. The hat which swung from his hand was a gray felt of delicate and expensive texture. His scarf was a golden brown, and beneath It Ryan could see a shirt of soft fine linen. The sergeant added the face and the clothing together and reached the sum "wealthy sportsman, English.” • "So you don't know your name?" he said wonderlngly. The stranger laughed embarressed 1y. “Sounds jolly rot, doesn't it?” Sergeant Ryan mentally compli mented his own shrewdness. He had guessed the man's nationality correct ly, for his accent was Indisputably British. “Well, it does seem strange for ■ young fellow in the pink of condi tion like you seem to be, to forget who he is. Tou talk like an English man. I don’t know how It Is in deer old Lunnon. but It ain't exactly healthy to spoof the police over here. Not In my precinct, anyway. So, just out of the kindness of my great big generous heart, I'm telling you that if you came here for a laugh you picked the wrong spot." The stranger smiled depreeatlngly “If.thc-re is any laugh In this, It's on me, not you. I assure you, I never felt less like laughing in my life.” “Well, It's a tough position you’re In. young man,” he said. “It’d give me the willies." "It makes me feel a little ga-ga," said the young man. "‘fia-ga?’ Now, that's a new one on me. Does it mean the willies?” The stranger smiled. "Something like that, I imagine.” “Well, I don't blame you." said the sergeant, “But suppose you tell me the whole story." The stranger shrugged his well knit shou'ders. ’.'There’s very little to tell. I suddenly found myself walking on a broad avenue along the edge of a park. T don’t know how I got therk, where it was, or who T was." He smiled rather winnlngly. “It's n dreadful sensation." * "1 lielie\e you." declared the ser geant with emphasis. "You don’t suppose you’d been drinking a little Itootleg liquor? It. does strange things to people, you know." “Now. that's a funny thing," re plied the stranger. "While I don't know my name, or where I come from. I do remember many, things. For Instance, I know that I never drink, and smoke only occasionally. So, it wasn’t liquor." "What did you do when you found out your memory'd gone?" asked the sergeant. The stranger looked embarrassed “Well, at first T went into a state of panic. Then I said to tnyaelf, 'Look here, old man, this will never do. Won't get you anywhere except com pletely ga-ga." “That 'ga-ga’ Is a grand word," commented the sergeant, “flo on." “Well, across the park I could see tall buildings, bigger than anything that I'd ever seen in London." "You remember London then?" In terrupted the sergeant. “I seem to know, somehow, that London i- my home. But where I lived there, I couldn't possibly tell you. Alsu 1 remember Paris and Brussels ami the Riviera and Rom# quite as well as I remember Lon don." ■’Polls voo 1 raney? askvd ser geant. “Ah. oui, Monsieur. M is je n» suls pas Franeais. No, I'm not French. I'm English.'’ The sergeant nodded. "I believe you. Oo on." "Well, I looked for a sign, and discovered that T wn» on Fifth ave nue. But after two hours T hadn't learned anything shout myself. I couldn't go back of the moment when I found myself strolling on Fifth avqnue. And so, finally, seeing this officer here, T walked up to him and explained my predicament. He ad vised me to come to see you. He said that you were not merely his superior officer, but a man of science." Sergeant Ryan east a glance of ap probation at Officer McCarthy. The latter hid a grin. He felt that he would lie a roundsman soon If Ser leant Ryan’* Influence had any weight. "An amachoor only, disclaimed the sergeant modestly. “However, 1 know something about your trouble. I’ve com# Into contact wllh similar rases before. T'sually, the person" memory Is restored In n very short time. Sometimes, there's no medical treatment at all required. .Inst a lit tle rest. a little time, and the rnem cry comes back. You've probably been under some heavy etrain. You don't look as though you'd been siok." "I feel fine," said the stranger. "I can’ believe that I've been under any strain.” The sergeant shrugged. "Maybe not. Sometimes a blow on the head—are you hurt anywhere?" The stranger shook his head. "Have you any money?" The young man pulled out a purse. From it he took several hundred dnl ta rs. "Den't seem as though you've been robbed," said Ryan. "You haven’t looked through your clothes?" not constructive. But his manner, bland and soothing, assorted better with his profession than his appear ance. He greeted the Englishman court eously. and when Ryan had explained their presence, his protruding eyes looked interestedly at his new patient, and not without kindness or its close simulation. ‘Strip,” said Conkllng. The Eng lishman obeyed him. Twenty minutes later his physician ordered him to put on his clothes. AVhile he was doing so, and for an hour thereafter, Conkiing riuestioned him on every conceivable subject. At the end of The Englishman nodded. "That's what I'm getting at, doctor. Suppose that advertising for my friends should bring me enemies?" "Vou are not speaking at random,” said the doctor. "I don't know what I’m driving at," was the other's reply. ”1 only know »imt I woke up last night, tip toed to the door of my room, opened it, and found myself trying the door nf the room next to mine. 1 wasn’t walking in my sleep; I was wide awake. I intended to rob that next room. Now, I know that is wrong, t may not have lleen a thief before I lost, my memory. But how do I know? Wouldn't It be better for me to abandon any effort to re establish myself under my own name? Might it not be possible that I would find the pollee waiting for the owner of that name?” Conklin? ceased Ills drumming. "You have, of course, no plans. And you Interest me. You are a rare type. A man of evident culture who Is apparently completely normal. 1 believe that I would be overlooking a scientific opportunity It I did not keep you near me. 1 have need of a sort of secretary-companion. The pay will be ample for your needs. You will live here with me. As you work for me you will also be under my medical observation. What do you say?" "I may he the most vicious criminal at large; I may be a murderer,” ob jected the Englishman. The physician smiled, exposing great white teeth, sharp like those of some carnivorous animal. "You are an extremely well-built young man.” he said. "But though 1 am at least twenty years older, I "For letters or other papers* T haven't a thing of the sort on me?" "I meant for marks on your cloth lng.” explained the sergeant. A light gleamed In the English man's eyes. "I hadn’t got around to thinking of that. Perhaps—" “Let’s go tn an Inside room,” sug gested the sergeant. But, strangely enough, there was not even a laundry mark upon the stranger's linen. The label that should have been sewed In his jacket was missing. His hat bore no mak er's mark. His shoes had no identi fying symbol. “Well, I don't know what to do for you," admitted Sergeant Hj’an as the stranger clothed himself. “If you acted nutty. T could ship you over to Bellevue. But you haven’t created any trouble, and It ain't a crime yet in this country for a man to forget his name. Of course, they'd take you In at Bellevue if you went there by yourself. What do you say?” "It seems so absurd," said the Eng llshman. "If I knew of some private specialist—” "I know^tho very man for you. 1'haddeus Conkllng, on Central Park West. He's the biggest man in the country on mental troubles. If he'd take you. you'd be in the best pos sible hands.” “Is he terribly expensive?” asked the stranger. , Ryan shrugged. "When I was a traffic cop I yanked him from In front of an automobile, and every Christmas he sends me a box of cigars. And he passes the time of day mighty pleasantly when ever we happen to •meet. For a friend of mine he'd he reasonable In Ids charges." “You're extremely kind,” said the stranger. • Sergeant Ryan waved a pudgy hand. "You're a likely looking lad. and It’s little enough I'll ho doing for you. AVe'll go to see him In the morning. Where do you plan to spent the night?" "I haven't the vaguest Idea,” ad mitted the stranger. "I'd take you home with mo my self. only what they pay a police ser geant don't rent any palaces. There Isn't »n extra room in my flut.( Rut McCarthy here will take you around to the Ballstnn: It's a decent quiet place, and you can send a bellboy out for the toilet articles you'll need." "I don’t know bow to thank you," said the Englishman. "Don’t try,” said Sergeant Ryan. "I'll call around for you about nine tomdrrnw rooming. And "don't wor ry. Mind that. You’ll be all right in a few dAys.” The camel would have hardly more difficulty In passing through the eye of a needle thnn a patient would In reaching the presence of Dr. Thad deus Conjdlng without an appoint ment. Rut the physician was evi dently a man wtio remembered Ills obligations. Sergeant Ryan sent In Ills name, and a moment later a nurse ushered the scaigeant and his companion past a line of waiting and disapproving patients, into his Inner office. He greeted Ryan cordially, and the Englishman had a chance 10 observe the man who, according to the sergeant, stood at the head of hi* profession. A huge man. several Inches above ■lx feet and wide tn proportion, with a tremendous led beard, hold blue eyes that were slightly protruding, and a great srlmlter of a rinse, he looked more like the reincarnation of an ancient Vllilng than n practi tioner "f medicine. There was some thing a bo'll t Idm that seemed p> sug gest elemental uudlsclidlned forces, and that was not at nil like a limn of healing. He teemed destructive, that time he confessed himself baf tied. "Yours is s. most unusual case. Ordinarily, In cases of aphasia oY am-j nesla, there are abnormal symptoms that go along with the disease itself. Hut in your case there Is absolutely nothing save the fact that you have forgotten your identity. I have ques tioned you In every possible way of which I can think. But none of those questions seems to strike a note upon the chords of memory. Physically, you are in perfect condition. Mental ly, aside from this blank spot In your brain, you are one of the most alert ly Intelligent patients I have ever examined. I Imagine that we must publish discreet advertisements, hop ing in that way to find yoYir family. The sight of your father, or a broth er or sister, or even an ordinary ac quaintance, would probably do more for you than all the medical treat ment In the world." "What reason do you assign for my condition?" asked the patient. Dr. Conk ling shrugged his massive shoulders. “A great grief, a pro longed mental strain, the after ef fects of a severe Illness, nr a blow would Induce your condition. Thst is why T'm puzzled. Your physical | condition Indicates absolutely that you have suffered none of these, ex cept possibly a blow." "But you can't find even the slightest trave of a blow upon me,” objected the Englishman. "That Is true," admitted the phy sician. "But the blow might have lieen suffered a long time ago, and Its effect be felt only now. Yqu have nothing to worry about. I asaure you that the trouble will go no deeper than It lies now. Tnless my entire professional experience Is at fault, your condition, if It change* In any way, will do so "for the better." "That’s not very encouraging, Is ft?” commented the Englishman. "I can't work mlrafcles,” said Conk ling. "If you were highly nervous, or If your physical condition were bad, T would not hesitate to recom mend an operation. Somewhere In the skull a piece of hone Is pressing upon your brain. But, without know log where the *pot Is—Its approxi mate position—we would have to rely entirely upon X rava. I would not care to do so In the case of a per fectly healthy man." "Then you can do nothing for me?" asked the patient. "I suggest that you advertise," said said the doctor. The patient started at him. "What sort of a. man would you fake me to be, doctor?” "You menn your character?" asked the doctor. “Exactly," said the Englishman. Conkllng's eyes half-veiled them selves behind lids whose velnous red ness lent a terrifying aspect to his countenance. "Your features would Indicate that you are a man of Imagination and recklessness. Your body bears two ■cars. Either or both might have been wounds received during the war. T'n qiiestlonsbly you were of military age Hut they might have been re reived In brawls of one sort or an oilier. My only reason for thinking tills latter la the fact that votir right hand haa been broken In two places. They are exactly the sort of breaks that might have been caused by the delivery of a blow by the hand. Your complexion Indioatea that you have lived greatly ollt of doors. I should sum up by saying that you probably hive an advetituroua and reckleas nature." "Hilt my morals, doetor?" Cockling lifted lit* Ibis. "I would snv, in' friend, (list you are not a man acrupulou* In the ordinary een«e of the word." V .a alight nolae from the door made him turn. “You are very frank,” said the doctor. "A doctor’s office Is like a con fessional, isn't it?” retorted the pa tient. ’’This one Is," said Conkling grim ly. ‘ Hut I have told you that 1 would not risk an operation.” “And I’m not sure that I’d consent to one.” said She patient. “I'd like to know* who I am, but I'd llki to find out quietly. I don't want to stir up any hornet’s nest.” “You are a very remarkable man,” said Conklin*. “.May 1 ask what you Intend to do when you leave this office?” would back myself In any contest of skill or strength with you. For your own sake, I would advise you to re strain any homicidal Impulses toward me.” The Englishman grinned. "I was only suggesting something.” “I was making more than « sug gestion; I was uttering a warning.'' rejoined Conkllng. "What do you sav?" "What can I say, except that I am extremely grateful," replied the Eng llshman. 11 So yon don’t Know your namr?’* "TTenvon know*. I have nearly fPe hundreil dollar*. After that'* gone — have no trade, no profenalnn, lid mean* of earning n livelihood, and no friend*." Dr. Conkllng 'hummed upon hi* de*k with great -pattilato finger*. "You lntere«t me," he * ltd it Ja»t. “I gather that yon do not look with equanimity upon the proapect of at.it vatlon." "Tou're exactly right," wild Ihe other. "According lo what little I've found out nlmut myeelf In (lie luat M hour* 01 an. yian dlagno«|a of my ehn racier I* correct. That I am more than reckleae, a luw bcuakei, 1 don't know." "II Is settled then. One of the s« i units will show you your quar ters. You will dine with me. Your other meals you will take In your room You will lie paid fifty dollars a week. I will explain your duties In a lew days In the meantime, 1 would suggest that you familiarise i yourself with the city. Chat will lie all for now lie made a gesture of dsmlssal. then failed the pailful lm<k. "(ill. I can't eall you ‘you’ all the time Have you any eholes of names The Kngllshnisn shook his head. "I will eall you, then, Mi-Karlaue. Philip Mcfarlana. Thai will Ire all. Mcfarlana." The duties of McFarlane were not at all onerous. They consisted for the most part in accompanying the doctor oil long walks after office hours, and In affording an audience to the physician in the evening when he ordinarily played the violin for n couple of hours. The new secretary had plenty of leisure and he Improved It In an odd fashion. He studied the habits of the whole household. He learned what servants were light sleepers, what they did on their nights off, at what hours they might he expected to return. Also, he learned by heart the plans of each floor. And he took It upon himself to oil certain locks and hinges that had a habit of squeaking. And ex actly three weeks after Ills entrance in to the Conkllng household he crept, at two o'clock in the morning, Into the bedroom where his employer • lept. With an uncanny deftness he took*s bunch of keys from the pair of trousers which Conkllng had hung over the back of a chair. Kneeling before a house safe in one corner of the bedroom, he opened it. He had abstracted a great wad of hills when a slight noise from the bed made him turn. Ills employer was awake. He leaped for the door: Conkiing In tercepted hint. The (wn bodies clashed with a noise that woke the house hold. Savagely McFarlane tried to break the grip of tiie giant who had grappled with him. Working free, lm struck his employer a lialfaloseti trip hammer blows in the face. The physician shook them off; his great arm circled through the air, his fist collided with McParlane's jaw, and the secretary went to the floor com pletely knocked out. He awakened some time later to find himself seated in an arm-chair, his feet and hands bound, while be fore him. drinking coffee from a cop that stood upon a table, sat Conkiing. The physician grinned; he seemed, in his pajamas, with his hair and beard awry from the recent struggle, like some great hairy ape. “Feeling better?" ho asked cheer fully. “What are you going to do with me?" demanded McFarlane. The doctor's grin grew broader. "The butler, his wife, who Is the par lor inaid, the cook and myself are all witnesses to your attempt at robbery and your assault upon me. What do you think I’m going to do?" "Send for the police. I suppose," said McFarlane hoarsely. Conkiing set his coffec-<np down. "Tou Interested me from the moment you came here. My interest has been increased by your activities of the past week. It was a touch of positive genius, oiling the doors. “You knew that?" cried McFarlane. “Certainly. Exactly as I knew w hy you were questioning the servants. You thought the cook and the butler would be out tonight, didn't you?” "Why didn't you di harge me. let me go. when you knew what I planned?” demanded McFarlane. Th* doctor shrugged. “Wherever you went you would be a criminal. Your own frank confession, plus my accurate observation of you, con vinced me of that fact. Why not let you commit your crime amid friend ly surroundings?" • Is that your reason? Pity for me? Conkllng lighted a cigar. "That, anti the fact that, being a scientific man, I hate to see good material go to waste, t'nmoral men, men without a single scruple and possessed of great physical courage, have their uses. I was not sure of your courage. If you dared put up a fight agaln«t me you would be a brave man. So then you have certain qualifications valuable to me." "In what wav"" naked McFarlane, "Before l answer let me remind You that no less credible a witness than Sergeant Ryan can testify that you came to me ns a patient suffering from a well known mental ailment Three witnesses beside myself can tes tlfy as to tonight's occurrence. Any thing that you might say about me would he discounted In advance You are a criminal and. If 1 choose to say a-- insane." He puffed at his clear. "Do I make the situation, your situation, i vtreme ly clear?" "Oo on." said McFarlane. "Have you heard of the Malbron gang?" McFarlane shook his head sullenly "Of course not; there has lieen noth ing in the papers alsmt them recent ly. And you have no recollection of events In this count ry before you came to Tile Well, the Malhnvn Bang, on the police vulgarly trim them he cause of the name by which their , leader Is known to the police. Is the . moat efficient group of criminal*—If . one cares to use so crude a word In . the world. Their leader Is atvva.v s on , the lookout for promising recruits. , Not low things, hut men of manner even though not of tradition. Men of , culture, who can understand the .iu» , lice (hat lies behind the Malbron ac t hit lea. For It Is unjust that traders should glean the inofli* of the world. 1 and men of science like mvself should slave for money to live and carrv on 1 their experiments '• We are gentlemen and men of Blent Intellectual attainment*. In fortunately some of us run more ;o brain Ilian to body e need ath Isle* like yourself. 1 shall now go to deep. Ton may think over the offer which 1 now make you; to Join our as Hociatlon. In the morning you may Join us. or go to jail ns a common, thief. Hood-night. Oh, by the way, I am M iIbron." tie turned out the light and Mac Fiirlane heard him climb into bed. “Don’t leave me here tieil up all night,” said the prisoner. “Of course I’ll Join: ' The new recruit to tlie Malbron gang walked by the side of ids leader across Central Park to Fifth avenue. Jtr. Conkling was In a mood of blood thirsty cheeriness that would have made a lesser man than McFarlane tremble with fear. "The house to which we are going is the home of Thomas Bretton, the famous inventor. You will meet there tonight our entire personnel. Jn the week that has elapsed since I dis closed my identity to you, you have been under close observation. Y'ou have passed all tests. Tonight you will lie admitted to full membership in our society. And I wish to give you a last warning. Betrayal means death. And it means a most unpleas ant death. I assure you that there is no one of our association Who would not gladly kill a traitor." As he spoke they emerged from the Park onto the Avenue. A newsboy thrust a paper almost in t.’nnkling's eyes. "Paper, boss?" he cried. Conkling pushed him aside, but Mc Farlane spoke to the boy. "I’ll take them all." he said. "T anks, boss." said the urchin. The transaction took only a moment; Mc Farlane stuffed the great wad of papers into his overcoat pocket and fell into step with his employer. Two minutes later they entered a house on tile opposite side of the street. McFarlane had rarely seen a more intellectual-seeming group of men than the half-dozen gentlemen who awaited Conkling and himself 111 Bretton's library. And yet. as Conk llng’s eves protroduded in an abnor mal fashion, so each of the others had some physical characteristic which spoke of a mentality, or a morality, at war with society. And in the at mosphere that these abnormalities gathered around themselves was a hint of terror. Outwardly they were all affable, but behind their courtesy he could feel their appraising scrutiny. Tie realized that h” was In the meeting place of the most dangerous group of criminals In the world. They adjourney shortly to a dining room, where suave servants waited on them. After dinner, a most excellent one. they repaired again to the library, and there the business of the meeting liegan. Plans were advanced for the robbery of a hank, plans that called fur the participation of at least se-, en-j ty five men. "You see McFarlane.” said Bret ton. “you have become one of the leaders of our association. To you plans can lie made known, for you may l>e able to suggest Improve ment*. *' "I think I can,” replied McFarlane boldly. “For Instance, your idea of de coying the police In the neighborhood away from the scene. Is not feasible.” The servant w ho. had admitted Mc : Farlane and Conkling to the house, ! entered the room without knocking, with the appearance of great haste. “Deegan has Just telephone!]. He 'says that he followed Dr. Conkling and McFarlane to the house On the! way Me Faria ne bought some paper* from a newsboy. It looked all riKht, but I Vena n followed the boy. lie say* that the boy went to Madison Ave nue, stepped in a taxi and drove to the offices of the Holland detective agency.” Ab Karla no wan standing by a win dow: h»* backed into the embrasure* his left hand shattered the glaas, and Ids right raised a revolver. Conkling broke bis silence. "('lever, exceedfnglv clever, the whole business, especially taking all the boy’s newspapers I suppose that meant that we'd all be here tonight. Me Far lane bowed. Your deduc tions do you credit. Doctor.' "And you are young Holland. *on of the founder of the agency, eh? The youth who was supposed to have en tered the cattle business In South America." MeFarlane bowed again. "You are a brilliant man, Doctor, and it was ne cessary to take elaborate precau tions." Conklins: sighed. 'You would have been so admirable an asset to us. It la too bad." His mild speech hod been assumed to hide bis almost insane wrath. That lie could think with calm cunning at such a moment proved bis marvelous self-control. He deceived the young man standing in the window. For when Conkling drew a revolver. Me Fartane thought that he Intended to use it against his captor. So he ordered Conkling to drop hi* weapon. The doctor never ral-ed it. He simply pressed the trigger as the muzzle pointed slantingly downward. The l ullet hit. MeFarlane later discovered, the electric light switch !n the wall, the box-like closet where were the fuses that regulated the lighting of the house. The room was plunged into darkness. \nd in }hat darkness, the misguided genius who headed the Malbron gang, who had foreseen th.s or a similar situation, and knew ex actly how to meet it, escaped. The rest were raptured. 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