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understand —one moment he would be his natural self, and the next in a great rage or in a state of acute depression. He would say and do things of which he had no knowledge afterwards and would sometimes insist that he had said one thing when I, and others, had heard him say the reverse. "I became very worried about him, and when he was in his most difficult moods saw his 'double' almost every other day or so. Then, as Mr. Patmore adjusted himself to his new work and conditions, I did not meet him so often, and then not at all. I have, however, seen the 'double' once or twice during the past year or so."