Naturally this confirmed me in my belief that his calling himself Vrain was a delusion.

Then he grew better, and one day told me that his name was Vrain.

Of course, I did not believe him.

Still, he was so persistent about the matter that I thought there might be something in it, and spoke to Ferruci." "What did he say ?" "He denied that the man's name was anything but Clear.

That the wife and two doctors--for the poor soul had been duly certified as insane--had put him into the asylum; and altogether persisted so strongly in his original story that I thought it was absurd to put a crazy man's delusion against a sane man's tale.