But Clear, as I may call him, was very violent, and quite justified Mrs.Clear's desire to sequester him.

She told me that he often imagined himself to be other people.

Sometimes he would feign to be Napoleon; again the Pope; so when he, a week after he was in the asylum, insisted that he was Mark Vrain, I put it down to his delusion." "But how could you think he had come by the name, Doctor ?" "My dear sir, at that time the papers were full of the case and its mystery, and as we have a reading-room in this asylum, I fancied that Clear had seen the accounts, and had, as a delusion, called himself Vrain.

Afterwards he fell into a kind of comatose state, and for weeks said very little.

He was most abject and frightened, and responded in a timid sort of way to the name of Clear.