The Popular Magazine, April 20, 1918

# The Escape

The Popular Magazine, vol. 48, no. 3, April 20, 1918, published by Street & Smith. "The Escape," a complete novel by Henry C. Rowland (author of "The Arbiters" and "The Rubber Man"), concerns two characters seeking recovery. Helen Castellane, a wealthy millionaire's daughter, arrives at a sanitarium on Long Island Sound run by Doctor Moritz Brinker, unaware she has been unknowingly addicted to opium administered by her drug-habituated governess. The physician explains her condition requires a year-long rest cure to free her system of the drug's craving. Jack O'Connor, son of a prominent judge, arrives drunk at his family's Hudson estate for his twin sister's graduation party, collapses in his room, then wakes delirious and dives into a fountain fully clothed, striking his head and losing consciousness. The narrative establishes both protagonists as requiring institutional treatment for their respective addictions and afflictions in this redemptive story.