CHAPTER XXII.
THE AWAKENING James and Mr.Burke met the great specialist in brain diseases at the noon train on Wednesday and drove him to Elmhurst.
Dr.Hoyt was a handsome, gray-haired man, with kindly eyes and a distinguished manner.

When he was ushered into the library the young ladies were attracted by the physician at once, and from the first glance were inspired by confidence in his powers.

Yet Dr.Hoyt spoke rather doubtfully of the case in hand.
"These cases are not so rare as you might suppose," he said; "yet no two of them are exactly alike.

Usually the recovery is slow and tedious; but recovery is not always assured.

In some instances, however, the memory is absolutely restored, and from what Mr.Burke has explained to me of Lucy Rogers's history this is what we may expect now.