E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) THE MAN WHO LOST HIMSELF by H. DE VERE STACPOOLE Author of "Sea Plunder," "The Gold Trail," "The Blue Lagoon," Etc. New York: John Lane Company Toronto: S. B. Gundy :: MCMXVIII Copyright, 1917-1918 by Street & Smith Copyright, 1918 by John Lane Company The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass U.S.A. CONTENTS PART I CHAPTER PAGE I. Jones 9 II. The Stranger 14 III. Dinner and After 18 IV. Carlton House Terrace 20 V. The Point of the Joke 38 PART II VI. The Net 45 VII. Luncheon 52 VIII. Mr. Voles 61 IX. More Intruders 74 X. Lady Plinlimon 85 XI. The Coal Mine 94 XII. The Girl in the Victoria 104 XIII. Teresa 119 PART III XIV. The Attack 125 XV. The Attack (Continued) 131 XVI. A Wild Surprise 136 XVII. The Second Honeymoon 148 XVIII. The Mental Trap 158 XIX. Escape Closed 164 XX. The Family Council 179 XXI. Hoover's 200 XXII. An Interlude 212 XXIII. Smithers 222 XXIV. He Runs to Earth 230 XXV. Moths 234 XXVI. A Tramp, and Other Things 241 XXVII. The Only Man in the World Who Would Believe Him 264 XXVIII. Pebblemarsh 274 XXIX. The Blighted City 283 XXX. A Just Man Angered 289 XXXI. He Finds Himself 294 THE MAN WHO LOST HIMSELF PART I CHAPTER I JONES It was the first of June, and Victor Jones of Philadelphia was seated in the lounge of the Savoy Hotel, London, defeated in his first really great battle with the thing we call life.