Mr Lovedays Little Outing

The story starts with a girl named Angela who visits for the first time in 10 years, after he attempted suicide at his wifes annual garden party and was taken to an asylum for the mentally ill where. when her father enters to the room to recive his visitors he comes along with Mr. Loveday, an elderly little man with full white hair and expression of great kidness. Her father After talking a bunch of nonsense and not recognizing her, left the room. Then Mr. Loveday returned and apologized for Lord's Moping behavior. Angela found Mr. Loveday very lovely man and then the doctor told her he is an inmate. Angela couldnt believe because he seemed very sane, then the doctor explained he was there because when he was a young man he killed a woman. he knocked off her bicycle and then throttled. After she returned home Angela couldnt stop thinking about Mr. Loveday, she felt that after so many years he deserved to get out, so she went back again to the asylum and talked to Mr. Loveday. He told her he didnt mind being there but there was one thing he wished he could do before he get old. So after talking to him, with the help of Sir Roderick Lane-Foscote their Member. Mr. Loveday achieved his liberty. His departure was marked by some ceremony at the Asylum. Mr. Loveday decided to leave the asylum walking. Everyone tought he was going to London and then visit her sister. It was surprise of all that he returned within 2 hours of his liberation. He informed the doctor that he had enjoyed his little outing very much and he was ready to return to his life again at the asylum. Half a mile up the road from the asylum gates, they later discovered an abandoned bicycle. It was a ladies machine of some antiquity. Quite near it in the ditch lay the strangled body of a young woman.

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