Private asylums were not uncommon in any part of the country.
They wondered if there could be any connection between Van’s disappearance and the asylum.
For a long while they pondered over it.
Then Old King Brady asked:
“I say, my friend! Have you any snowshoes?”
“Sartin!” replied Paine. “But ye ain’t goin’ out to-night?”
“I have a desire to visit that asylum,” said the detective.
“Wait till ter-morrer. We’ll break the road out airly.”
“Oh, I don’t mind the storm.”
At this moment one of the farm boys came in with a stamp of his feet.