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.