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Still, he did not surrender on the spot, but listened quietly to Lucian's story, in the hope of seeing some way of escape from his awkward position. "The other day I went to Dr. Jorce's asylum," said Lucian slowly, "and there I discovered it matters not how that your friend Clear was Mr. Vrain; also I learned that he had been placed in the asylum by you and Mrs. Clear.
She called me Michael Clear, and brought me to stay with the doctor. But I am not Michael Clear!" As soon as Lucian arrived back in his rooms he sat down at his desk and wrote a long letter to Diana, giving a full account of his extraordinary discovery of her father in Jorce's asylum, and advising her to come up at once to London.
The grounds were large, and well laid out in flower gardens and orchards; and as it was Dr. Jorce's system to allow his least crazy patients as much liberty as possible, they roamed at will round the grounds, giving the place a cheerful and populated look. The more violent inmates were, of course, secluded; but these were well and kindly treated by the doctor.
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