272
XIX. "AND YOU COULD DO THIS, FELIX BRAND!" 285
XX. "SAVE ME, DR. ANNISTER!" 295
XXI. HUGH GORDON TELLS HIS STORY 317
XXII. "A MOST INTERESTING CASE!" 335
XXIII. WHITHER? 341

ILLUSTRATIONS

MILDRED ANNISTER MADE APPREHENSIVE INQUIRY
CONCERNING HIM
_Frontispiece_

PAGE

"HARRY, DEAR, HAVE YOU HEARD FROM HIM?" 84

HE SANK FACE DOWNWARD ON THE BED 139

"MILDRED!" HIS WHITE LIPS WHISPERED, THEN STIFFENED AND
WERE STILL 340

THE FATE OF FELIX BRAND

CHAPTER I

FELIX BRAND HAS A MYSTERIOUS EXPERIENCE

Felix Brand awoke with a start and looked about him with a puzzled
stare. And yet there was nothing unfamiliar in what met his gaze. The
bed wherein he lay and its luxurious appointments were of his own
recent buying. He had himself designed the decorations of the room
and selected its furnishings. As his eyes leaped from one object to
another his bewildered glance seemed to slide unnotingly over the
furniture, and the draperies, walls and pictures, indicative of a
fastidious taste, that made up the interior of his bedroom.

But it was no more than a few seconds until his consciousness came
again into accord with his surroundings. His look of perplexity
quickly changed into one of satisfaction and amusement, and he
exclaimed aloud:

"Good Lord, how vivid that was! Never before has it been so strong!"
He rubbed his eyes, slapped his arms and moved about in the bed as if
to be assured of his bodily intactness and smiled again as he thought:

"No, I'm here, all right, and I'm I, as usual! But it seems as if I'd
only have to close my eyes to swing back into it again!"

His eyelids dropped as if in response to his thought, but quickly
opened again, with a little frown, as he murmured, "No, I guess not.
This is better!"

He rested his head upon his locked hands and stretched himself full
length upon his back, as his eyes roved about the beautiful interior.
They dwelt caressingly upon its details with the pride and pleasure of
the creator and the satisfaction of the owner for whom possession has
yet the bloom of newness.

It was