What are you doing here? •Why,' he replied, in an insolent, half-tipsy tone,' we are a-lookin' arter tho gent in that 'ere apartment; wrong here, you know,' tapping his head; ' wery wiolent at times; takes Joe and mo all our time to sort him,' ' Have you been often here ? I asked. ' Every night as we are asked, am t wo, Joe ? And we does do it pleasant. Lady and gemman out, at the theaters and hopperers, and all that sort; plenty meat, plenty grog, good fire, no disturbance; go away morning, come back night again, and so on, etceterer. What has you got to say agin'it 1' I was utterly shockel by the speech and con duct of the men, hut thought it wiso to make no disturbance at that moment, and only asked for It was no wonder that my medicines failed to soothe the poor follow, if this was his usual fate. I found him cold and trembling; and upon my speaking kindly to him, he burst into a flood of hysterical tears. ' You mean well by me, don t you? he nervously inquired. ' Of course I do;' I answered, patting him as I might have soothed and patted an infant._ 'Then get me away from here,' said he. 'They are killing me. They say I'm mad, doctor; but lam sane as you are only weak—oh, ' I will do all I can for you,' I answered. ' But your wife would not injure youT ' Ah.' he cried in an agonised tone,' my wife! ' I will speak to her to-morrow," I said, and we will arrange Borne change for you. Do not be nervous. You are safe—perfectly safe. ' They are killing me/ he still repeated—' kill ing me.*' ■ I ■ ' , But for the shock I had got on discovering the hands into which his wife confided him. I should almost have been inclined to think, from the steady monotone ho kept up that his mind was affected. Under the circumstances, such custodians would havo made anyone feel queer, to say the least of it; and in the state of extreme weakness in which ho was, I could imagine nothing was too frightful for him to conjure up. He was reduced to the feebleness of an infant. 