For eighteen months he was under medical treatment, and for at least six months of that time in a private insane hospital.

But all to no effect.

Severe or lenient treatment all ended in the same result.

He continued a simple, harmless old man, fond of me as a child is of his mother, and looking up to and confiding in me for every thing.
"At the end of the period I have indicated, I found my means had become reduced to about three thousand dollars.

This awoke in my bosom a new cause of anxiety.