As you have heard, he even left me in doubt whether he was one of the governing body at the asylum.

No reference to any circumstance in his life which might alarm or distress me ever passed his lips." Her voice failed her as she paid that tribute to her husband's memory.

She waited to recover herself.

"But, on the night before his death," she resumed, "when he was half waking, half dreaming, I heard him talking to himself of something that he was anxious to do, if the chance of recovery had been still left to him.

Since that time I have looked at his private diary; and I have found entries in it which explain to me what I failed to understand clearly at his bedside.