I rubbed my forehead wearily.

"Would one of you explain?" I asked. "I can't think what's happened.

You're at least a paragraph ahead of me."

Reginald sat down again and lit a cigarette.

"It's simply this," he said, trying to keep calm. "You may call me

what you like, but I am always the same person week after week."

"Nonsense. Why, it was Richard last week."

"But the same person."

"And Gerald the week before. Gerald, yes; he was rather a good

chap."

"Just the same, only the name was different. And who are we? We are

you as you imagine yourself to be."

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