“Eh?” exclaimed the keeper in surprise. “Do women go crazy? Wall, I should say so!”
“Are there any here?”
“Any crazy women here? Well, there’s one on the very floor above this.”
The detectives had the deepest of interest. They questioned Isaac closely and skillfully, but they could learn no more.
They wondered who the lady inmate of the asylum was.
But they felt sure that before morning the chance would be given them to ascertain.
CHAPTER X.
THE ASYLUM PRISONER.
Isaac, the keeper, became quite voluble after a few drinks of whisky.
He talked freely and the detectives used every effort to pump him.
They learned that there was a strange female patient in the asylum.