“It’s easy enough to understand it all now,” said Old King Brady. “You see Van went as far as he could with his team. Then he turned it into this man’s yard and went ahead on foot.”
“He meant to reach the asylum. It was certainly his objective point.”
“Yes.”
“But what business can he possibly have at the asylum of Doctor Scraggs?”
“That is for us to find out.”
“Perhaps——”
Old King Brady paused. Both detectives had experienced the same thought. Was there any connection between the insane asylum of Doctor Scraggs and the Fifteenth street mystery?
Had the Tough Trio any relationship with this private home for the insane?
The Bradys knew well that many of these private asylums are but prisons for innocent victims of evil plots.
On the charge of insanity a perfectly sane man may be kept for years, even to the hour of his death, in awful, torturous confinement.