There were no other instructions, recommendations. McDevitt had decided to treat him on his own. Only a short note, and the deposit from Grenville Hawkes, followed in the mail.ĭr. Yes, yes, I know, you're not accustomed to patients from the criminally insane ward at Eastern State, but crazy is crazy, after all.'No other instructions. 'A favor for a friend of mine, Grenville Hawkes. Kahne wanted to make sure his progeny had a place to live and out of all his swarm of eccentric descendants,this granddaughter was perhaps the most likely candidate.)'Money is no problem,' Louisa had insisted when she called demanding a room. (The commonly held view, and joke, was that the esteemed Dr. Her grandfather Johnas Kahne had founded and still technically ruled Terrace View. Jamie had been transferred here abruptly, at the insistence of Louisa Kahne. Some memory of his early life was now returning, the report stated.Not much to go on, but Eastern State was a place of housing, not treatment.Dr. In the beginning, the patient would wake having no memory of the day before, would literally forget his own name by afternoon.

Some doctor from Eastern State, who forgot to sign his name, had made a note that this was one of the worst cases of depression he'd ever tried to treat-it was no doubt a major cause of the amnesia.

McDevitt glanced across the scanty medical report. McDevitt thought he discerned a small flinch in Jamie's posture, but there was no change in tone, as he said, 'No.'Dr. Do you remember working for Grenville Hawkes, back in Hawkes Harbor?'Dr. Do you remember Grenville Hawkes?'Jamie shook his head.'You used to work for him-he wanted to make sure you received the best treatment. McDevitt was sure it had set his progress back for weeks.'Grenville Hawkes asked that you be placed here. And the brutal way he had been transferred here. After all, he only recently could remember his name. Right now the young man probably couldn't tell one place from another. McDevitt wasn't insulted at Jamie's shrug, implying awell-run sanitarium wasn't any better than that state institutional hellhole, Eastern State, where he'd been for the last few months. A small, well-built young man who might have been handsome had it not been for his gauntness, the listlessness of his posture, the shadows around his shifting eyes.He kept wringing his hands together.'It's okay,' Jamie answered, not looking up.Dr.

McDevitt looked at the young man seated in front of his desk. Interview Terrace View Asylum, Delaware JANUARY 1967'So, Jamie, you've had a few weeks to adjust to Terrace View.

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