“He said that when he found me, I did not recognize him and was in a sort of dazed mental state. Then he tried hypnotism. He had often hypnotized me before that, and was thus familiar with my condition while in a trance. Well, as soon as he saw me, after my long disappearance, he declared that I showed every symptom of hypnotic trance. So, he at once tried the usual method for bringing me back to a normal condition—and with complete success.”
“In his report Arthur emphasizes that as the singular feature of the case. His account, so far as it goes, agrees with yours. It gives the facts of the explosion, how you were supposed to be killed, how you disappeared for three months, and how, when you were found, you were in a trance from which he awakened you.”
“Does he say that, on coming out of the trance, I could remember nothing that happened during those three months?”
“Yes.”
“Well, there’s the whole case. You know all that I do about it.”
“All that Raoul Arthur knows?”
“All that he says he knows.”
“Ah, then you have your doubts?”
“Just a suspicion. I have a feeling that he could tell more about my disappearance than he chose to tell.”
“Why did you leave him?”