The Man Who Lost Himself
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He was not in his room at the Savoy. There was no clock in the Savoy bed room, and no clock in any hotel ever spoke in tones like these. On the sound, as if from a passage outside, he heard a voice:
"Took all his money, and sent him home in another chap's clothes."
Then came the sound of a soft step crossing the carpet, the sound of curtain rings moving--then a blind upshrivelled letting the light of day upon a room never before seen by Jones, a Jacobean bed room, severe, but exquisite in every detail.
The man who had pulled the blind string, and whose powerful profile was silhouetted against the light, showed to the sun a face highly but evenly coloured, as though by the gentle painting of old port wine, through a long series of years and ancestors. The typical colour of the old fashioned English Judge, Bishop, and Butler.
He was attired in a black morning coat, a
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Mr. Jones (an American) meets his double (the English Earl of Rochester) in a hotel.
Rochester has made a mess of living and plays a final trick on Jones.
Rochester gets Jones drunk and taken to the Earl's abode, to wake up in a quandary.
Rochester has committed suicide and leaves Jones to see if he can do a better job of living, than he did.
The Earl is friendless, in marital trouble and broke.
Jones is also broke and plays the game while trying to find a solution.
He is a business man and loves a challenge. There are many challenges ahead of him.
Jones has lost himself (his true identity).
A common theme, but well writtenb.
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