hat caused her to lose her sense of
identity completely. She did not seem to be hurt, and she was not in
need of medical aid. Without assistance, she got on the relief train
that took the injured in to Portland, and there it was that Lieutenant
Varley saw her in the station.
Through some vagary of her brain, Mildred imagined she wanted to go to
New York, and, as she had plenty of money, she bought a ticket for that
city, the one to Seattle having been lost. Lieutenant Varley had helped
her and, though he suspected something was wrong with the young lady the
impression with him was not very strong until it was too late to be of
assistance to her.
So, her identity completely lost, Mildred started on her trip across the
continent. What happened on that journey she never could recollect
clearly. That she got on the Great Lakes and then went to Boston was
established. The reason for that was that, as a child, she had lived
there. This accounted for the toilet set her mother had given her, and
for the recollection of the monument and the historic places.
Why she was attracted to moving pictures could only be guessed at, but
she "broke in," and "made good." Her ability to ride was easily
explained. Her father owned a big stock farm, and Mildred had ridden
since a child. But all this, as well as other remembrances of her
younger days, was lost after the injury to her head in the railroad
accident. She retained but one strongly marked memory--the name of her
doll, the name which she took for her own.
So, as a new personage, she came to Oak Farm, unable to think back more
than four years, and totally without suspicion that she was the missing
Mildred Passamore. That she was not recognized as the missing girl was
not strange, since the search in the East had not been prosecuted as
vigorously as it had been in the West.
Mr. and Mrs. Passamore, hearing that the train on which their daughter
was traveling had been wrecked, hastened to Portland, but there they
could find no trace of Mildred. Lieutenant Varley, who might have given
a clue, had sailed for Europe the day after his meeting with Mildred.
Then began the search which lasted four years, and had now come to an
end at Oak Farm.
"And to think that I have been two persons all this while!" exclaimed
Mildred, when explanations had been made, and she was on the road to
recovery. "But what made my memory come back?"
"The same thing that took it from you," explained Dr.
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