"You see," remarked Doctor Burr, as we walked down the hall, "she
is quite unstrung still. Mr. Cranston comes up here once in a
while, and we notice that after these visits she is, if anything,
worse."

Down the hall a door had been left open, and we could catch a
glimpse of a patient rolled in a blanket, while two nurses forced
something down his throat. Doctor Burr hastily closed the door as
we passed.

"That is the condition Mrs. Cranston might have got into if she
had not come to us when she did," he said. "As it is, she is never
violent and is one of the most tractable patients we have."

We left shortly, without finding out whether Doctor Burr suspected
us of anything or not. As we made our way back to the city, I
could not help the feeling of depression such as Poe mentioned at
seeing the private madhouse in France.

"That glimpse we had into the other room almost makes one recall
the soothing system of Doctor Maillard. Is Doctor Burr's system
better?" I asked.

"A good deal of what we used to think and practise is out of date
now," returned Kennedy. "I think you are already familiar with the
theory of dreams that has been developed by Dr. Sigmund Freud, of
Vienna. But perhaps you are not aware of the fact that Freud's
contribution to the study of insanity is of even greater
scientific value than his dream theories taken by themselves.