[By Berwen Banks by Allen Raine]@TWC D-Link bookBy Berwen Banks CHAPTER XVI 5/10
But do you know that name ?" "Yes, Cardo Wynne." "Is that your name ?" asked the shrewd doctor. "Yes, Cardo Wynne." "Merciful goodness!" said the host, in excited astonishment, which his wife seemed in a great measure to share, "that is the name of my brother's son, Caradoc, commonly called Cardo Wynne; that is what Dr. Hughes told us, Nellie, didn't he ?" "Yes, I have often thought of the name and wondered what he was like. How sad," she said, "and such a handsome fellow, too." "Caradoc!" Dr.Belton called suddenly. "Yes," said Cardo, with one of his pleasant smiles, "Cardo Wynne, Brynderyn." "Good heavens!" said Mr.Wynne, "there can be no doubt about it; that is my brother's home." And both he and Dr.Belton, aided by Mrs.Wynne's gentle suggestions, made every endeavour to elicit further information from Cardo, but in vain.
He had fallen again into an apparently unconscious and deadened stupor. "Sunstroke, did you say? are you sure of that, Belton ?" "Not at all," said the doctor; "in fact, I have had serious doubts of it lately, and to-day's experience decides me.
I will have a thorough examination of his skull." "I will ride in to-morrow, to hear what further discoveries you have made," said Mr.Wynne.
And Dr.Belton returned home early, leaving his host and hostess deeply interested. Calling Sister Vera to him he told her of his plans. "I have long thought it possible that poor fellow might have had a blow of some kind on his head, and that he is still suffering from the effects of it.
I shall at once administer an anaesthetic and have a thorough examination of his head.
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