es even more involved with the case and is determined to find out the memory lapses in Grace's story. The group who hired Dr. Jordan has become restless for his slow process to uncovering the truth. Dr. Jerome DuPont enters the medical study of Grace Marks. Although Grace has known Jerome before but as a peddler and friend named Jeremiah. Much to the dismay of Jordan, DuPont is given the opportunity to put Grace into hypnosis, in full view of her peers. During this momentous scene, Grace is hypnotized into a state of unconsciousness where she able to retrieve memories not perceived during consciousness. Grace, after asked many specific questions, uncovers the mystery of the night of the murders. In fact, the time not remembered by Grace, is of a personality not her own but that of Mary Whitney. Here Mary Whitney declares her guilt, but states that Grace would have no recollection of this time. After this scene, all goes back to its original way for many years. Dr. Simon Jordan's affair with his landlady becomes too controversial and abruptly leaves town and neglects to say goodbye to his patient or his female admirers. The group dedicated to Grace's innocence still argues for her release but now basis their reasoning on mental insanity of the Grace during the murders. Grace is returned to prison for which she is still hopeful for her release on account of her hypnotic trance confession. Much time has passed and Dr. Jordan has no longer been heard from. Only from letters of correspondence with others do the readers discover he has been injured in the Civil War. He has become engaged, but the event is being postponed until his mental capabilities are restored. Coincidentally, his mother questionably states his reference to his fiancee as "Grace". Now at the age of forty-five, almost thirty years after the murder, Grace, still working as a servant outside of prison, is set free. With her new freedom Grace becomes deeply disturbed. Prison h...
