The Key to Yesterday

The Key to Yesterday by Charles Neville Buck is about a young painter who has fallen into a strongly effective bout of amnesia, wherein he cannot remember anything that happened more than seven years ago. Excerpt: «The palings of the grandstand enclosure creaked in protest under the pressure. The shadows of forward-surging men wavered far out across the track. A smother of driving dust broke, hurricane-like, around the last turn, sweeping before it into the straightaway a struggling mass of horse flesh and a confusion of stable colors. Back to the right, the grandstand came to its feet, bellowing in a madman's chorus. Out of the forefront of the struggle strained a blood-bay colt.»