Three days later he reappeared, entered the office with a loaded and cocked revolver held behind his back, and abruptly announced: "I've come to blow out your brains." Before he could shoot the superintendent was upon him and a fierce struggle ensued for the possession of the weapon.

The superintendent at last took it away, secured help and handcuffed the would-be murderer.
Realizing that his act was the result of at least partial insanity, the was-to-be victim did not press the charge of murderous assault but allowed--indeed urged that he be sent to the insane asylum where he now is.
Now this is the point I wish to make.

It is perfectly within the bounds of possibility that this man will some day be regarded as safely sane.

Yet it is well known by the awful experiences of many such cases that it is both possible and probable that during the months or years of his incarceration he will continue to harbor, even to feed and foster the bitter feeling, the hatred, perhaps, that led him to attempt the murder of the superintendent, and that on his release he will again attempt to carry out his nefarious and awful design.
What, then, should be the mental attitude of the superintendent and his family?
Ought they not to be worried?
I got the answer for my readers from this man, and it is so perfectly in accord with my own principles that I find great pleasure in recording it.

Said he: Don't think for one moment that I minimize the possible danger.