Description:

A bank clerk endeavouring to combine literary activity with the daily routine, sud denly loses his memory, and is subjected in consequence to undeserved suspicions of mal versation. Under both these afflictions he is comforted and succoured by a physician ignorant of his antecedents and by no means convinced of his innocence, but true to the professional instinct for relieving suffering in any circumstances. This good Samaritan takes his patient on a yachting expedition to the Cornish coast, and there under the soothing influences of the sea—the ‘mind healer’ of the recovers mental and bodily health, and clears himself triumphantly of the charges alleged against him. Further, he obtains favourable terms from a publisher, and a consequent release from uncongenial drudgery.

Reviews:

“This is delightful comedy, tending now and then towards farce, but always handled with deftness and kept just within bounds. The texture of Mr Durand’s style is also above the ordinary. The humor of the book is genuine and also clean, and the portrayal of the erratic doctor is a character sketch of some subtlety.”

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