It is for you to act in the matter; I could not." Without a moment's delay, Perkins procured a vehicle, and in a little while was at the door of the institution.
"Is there a Mr.Ballantine in the asylum ?" he asked, in breathless eagerness, of one of the attendants who answered his summons.
"No, sir," was the reply.
"But," said Perkins in a choking voice, "I have been told that there was a man here by that name." "So there was.

But he left here about five days ago, perfectly restored to reason." Perkins leaned for a moment or two against the wall to support himself.

His knees bent under him.

Then he asked in an agitated voice-- "Is he in Boston ?" "I do not know.

He was from the South, and his daughter has, in all probability, taken him home." "Where did they go when they left here ?" But the attendant could not tell.