turn of the hand of that fickle goddess had prevented her from
doing so.

I had picked up one of the evening papers and was looking at the
newspaper half-tone which more than failed to do justice to her.
Just then my eye happened on an item which I had been about to
discuss with Carton when Kennedy entered.

"As a scientist, does the amnesia theory appeal to you, Craig?" I
asked. "Now, here is an explanation by one of the special writers,
headed, 'Personalities Lost Through Amnesia.' Listen."

The article was brief:

Mysterious disappearances, such as that of Betty Blackwell, have
alarmed the public and baffled the police before this--
disappearances that have in their suddenness, apparent lack of
purpose, and inexplicability much in common with her case. Leaving
out of account the class of disappearances for their own
convenience--embezzlers, blackmailers, and so forth--there is
still a large number of recorded cases where the subjects have
dropped out of sight without apparent cause or reason and have
left behind them untarnished reputations and solvent back
accounts. Of these, a small percentage are found to have met with
violence; others have been victims of suicidal mania, and sooner
or later a clue has come to light which has established the fact.
The dead are often easier to find than the living.

Of the remaining small proportion, there are on record, however, a
number of carefully authenticated cases where the subject has been