Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-10-07

q start. as Sudden idea occurred to
him.
81 have 1T" be exclaimed. aloud
"I'n wager have fathomed the mys-
terry Of Mrs. MausAeld's disappearanceI
Why didn't I think of 1t before, I
wonder? Let's see," and he looked at
his watch, az have Just time enough to
catch the train. believe I'll run down
and put the matter to the test at once /"
Two hours later Mr.. Ferret stood in
tho presence of Mr.. Mansfield. The
detective was shocked at the change In
his late employer. He was aged q
score OF years, and his hair, lately Q
beautiful brown, was silvered with
gray. he had hopeless expression Of
countenance that was pitiful to see,
but frightened up little, at sight of
the detective
Have you-dO you bring me any
news2" he asked, eagerly.
mr.. Mansfield, wish to ask you q
question or two" said the detective.
"Do you know anything regarding your
wife's ancestors3"
'Only that they were excellent peo-
ple," quickly. II never heard aught
said against any relative Of hers-"
"Well, answer me this: Did you ever
hear OF, or know of any relative of
hers being afflicted with insanity?"
This shot struck home. Mr.. Mans
fields face paled, and he reeled back
against the wall.
Her uncle" he gasped. lis an occu-
pant of an insane asylum now. Ny
Godl Do you think-do you suspect
THAT your wife was insane when
she disappeared 50 mysteriously7 Yes,
that is what think, and now I would
advise that the different establishments
for the care of the insane, that arc dis
tributed throughout the country, be
looked through for your wifeI she
might be found. Mind you. say nfqAt
be found; my own opinion is that she is
dead"
We'll begin the search Tomorrow
declared Mr.. Mansfield Name your
price to help me and consider yourself
engaged"
The search through the different In
sane asylums began next day, and in q
private" institution of this kind, near
ly hundred miles from her home, Mrs.
Mansfield was found
She was sane, too, as anybody, but
old, from confinement In
such horrible place; but how happy
The two were over their reunion, after
being separated for 30 long
Mrs. Mansheld's story was soon told.
She had been taken with q sudden In
sane notion that her husband hated
her and wished to make away with
her. She thought that, instead of 90
ing to the opera, her husband was 20
ng to take her of somewhere and
murder her. With this fear to urge
her ON, she had returned to her room
IN that evening, two years before,
ocked the door, climbed out of the
descended by the lightning
rod and made her escape. She had
away, through the timber
and across the country, to the rail
roadi boarding train, she rode to a
Town nearly q hundred miles distant.
Here she left the train, and wandered
again, until picked up by kind people
and sent to the asylum for the insane.
She came back to her right Senses a
lew weeks after entering the asylum,
0ut when she told them she was sane,
and gave her name and address, thew
laughed at her, and never even thought
Of writing TO the address she rave
them. So despairing, and almost
heartbroken, the poor woman was
forced TO remain an inmate of a mad
house, companion of mad men and
women It was terrible, and her toy
at regaining her freedom and being re-
stored TO her home and the arms of her
loving husband, can DO better imaR-
lned than described
She never had a second touch of tho
dread malady, and among all their
many friends, there was never one who
was moro welcome visitor than tho
man who, sitting at his home thinking,
had figured out the cause of Mrs
Mansheld's mysterious disappearance
Mr.. Ferret, the detective.-a A. D.
Con, In Yankee Blade.