The quinine knocked all the fever out of me within two days.
The food I was given to eat after fasting two months, began to
strengthen me at once and within ten days I was able to walk about the
room. Arletta never failed to visit me at least once each day, and on
some days, two and three times. With each visit she brought flowers,
fruit, or some little delicacy, and I was not long in discovering that
she was taking more than an ordinary interest in me. As the days flew
by, her visits became more frequent and of longer duration, until
finally it seemed as if she almost lived in my apartment. Many times she
came in the morning and remained all day, taking her lunch with me in
the meantime. As my health improved, and I became more vigorous in
bodily strength, those same feelings of admiration and love I bore for
the first Arletta took a firm hold of me until it seemed that she was a
part of my very life. Ah! those were happy and heavenly days indeed. The
happiness I enjoyed there, was of that kind which can only exist between
two souls fore-ordained and mated to each other for all eternity. As the
time went by-all too rapidly-we had much to talk about. Arletta
described the many progressive strides made by science and invention
during the twenty-one years in which my mind was a blank, and I told her
hair-raising stories of my early travels and adventures in all parts of
the world. We said very little regarding my other personality. That
subject appeared distasteful, and caused her to shudder whenever it was
brought up.
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