It was a paragraph about his
wife, an almost incredible one, running thus:
A strange explanation is given of the disappearance of Mrs. Roger
Ransom on her wedding-day. As our readers will remember, she
accompanied her husband to the hotel, but managed to slip away and
leave the house while he still stood at the desk. This act, for which
nothing in her previous conduct has in any way prepared her friends, is
now said to have been due to the shock of hearing, some time during her
wedding-day, that a sister whom she had supposed dead was really alive
and in circumstances of almost degrading poverty. As this sister had
been her own twin the effect upon her mind was very serious. To find
and rescue this sister she left her newly made husband in the
surreptitious manner already recorded in the papers. That she is not
fully herself is shown by her continued secrecy as to her whereabouts.
All that she has been willing to admit to the two persons she has so
far taken into her confidence--her husband and the agent who conducts
her affairs--is that she has found her sister and cannot leave her.
Why, she does not state. The case is certainly a curious one and Mr.
Ransom has the sympathy of all his friends.
Confused, and in a state of mind bordering on frenzy, Mr. Ransom returned
to the hotel and sought refuge in his own room.
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