recollection of what occurred during her last sickness. For six months, her life was a blank, and at the end of that time, looking over her papers, she came across the marriage certificate. She immediately wrote to the president of the Standard National Bank, but received the news that Langlois de Brunner had left New York soon after Bergen's disappearance, and he left no explanation of his movements. Bergen acquainted her mother with the facts and requested that they be published. This was done, and Bergen attempted to re-enter the journalistic field. On February 12, 1897, Bergen told her friends that it was her intention to convert to her husband's religion, to which she would devote all her own means and the fortune which would come to her at the death of her grandmother and great-uncle. This decision was considered remarkable as Bergen had declined a marriage proposal from Frances J. A. Speet, a prominent squire of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, because of his conversion to the Catholic faith. It was expected that Bergen's announcement would apprise the viscount of the whereabouts of his bride. Though she had had a vague recollection that the viscount had mentioned his intention to go to Cuba, she had an abiding faith in the return of her husband. She forwarded a telegram to President William McKinley, asking him "politics aside" if he would aid the insurgents. This was regarded at the time as an eccentricity or perhaps a deep interest in the cause from the fact that she believed her absent husband went to Cuba to join the insurgent army. On February 28, 1897, while with friends, she tore her hair and cut up parts of her dress into shreds. Her brother, who was on business in Washington, D.C., and her family physician were sent for, and it was deemed appropriate to send Bergen to the Emergency Hospital. The hospital superintendent felt that Bergen might become violently insane and admitted her. One of her hallucinations was that she was in Cuba fighting the Spanish army. On March 1, she made diagrams of imaginary battlefields in Cuba and wrote notes to prominent persons. On March 2, her friends thought it best to remove Bergen to St. Elizabeth's Asylum (now known as St. Elizabeths Hospital) where she was admitted on the advice of relatives and her physician. By December 1897, Bergen showed signs of improvement in