sure she would ever tell him. If she had still been Hank she knew she would have liked to have Kenneth for a friend. As Lydia she felt he needed her, and she wanted to help and take care of him.

Their friendship developed into something more than a friendship, and Kenneth asked Lydia to marry him. She told him she was very fond of him but asked him to wait a little longer before asking her final decision. Doctor Roget and the original Hank were due to return soon, and when they did the assistant might not want to remain as Hank. Lydia hoped he would, but she felt she did not have the right to make any promises for the future until she knew more of what her future would be.

One evening a short time after the year the doctor had promised was up. She heard from him. But he was a very different Doctor Roget then the one who had left so hurriedly a year ago. The doctor that greeted Lydia was a very feminine, well dressed lady of forty or fifty years. Nothing about her suggested the distinguished looking man that had left Lydia so confused a year ago. The lady doctor had a hard time convincing Lydia that the gentleman that gave her the thousand dol- lars, and this attractive looking woman were the same person.

"I returned my Russian friend his own form and now I have my own again," said the doctor.

"Where's Hank?" asked Lydia.

"Poor Hank," sighed the doctor, "He will not be returning. He fell in love, and married a beautiful Italian woman, and is now living in Italy."

"Oh, no! Not Hank," exclaimed Lydia. "He couldn't."

"But he did," the doctor assured her.

The idea of poor, shy, bashful Hank, as she had known him, getting married to anyone was a surprise to Lydia. How he must have changed. She wondered how much she, herself, had changed from the former Lydia. That Hank would not be returning was a great relief to Lydia. Now there would not be any transposition business, and she could re- main as Lydia. The doctor stayed with Lydia in her apartment while she was waiting to return to her own world. She and Lydia became friends, and doctor Susan, as she called herself, urged Lydia to return

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