iquor alone; to attend strictly to my
medical business, which I always managed to make profitable, and above
all, to have nothing to do with women in the love-making or matrimonial
way.

With those good resolutions I arrived in New York and went to my old
hotel in Courtland Street, where I was well known and was well received.
My trunk, which I had left there sixteen months before, was safe, and
I had a good suit of clothes on my back--the clothes I took off when
I went to prison in Trenton--and which were returned to me when I came
away. I went to a friend who loaned me some money, and I remained two or
three days in town to try my new-found freedom, going about the city,
visiting places of amusement, enjoying myself very much, and keeping, so
far, the good resolutions I had formed.

From New York I went to Troy, and at the hotel where I stopped I became
acquainted with a woman who told me that her husband was in the Insane
Asylum at Brattleboro, Vt. She was going to see him, and if he was fit
to be removed, she proposed to take him home, with her. I told her
of the success I had had in taking care of two men at Newbury and
Montgomery; and how I had traveled about the country with them, and with
the most beneficial results to my patients. She was much interested,
inquired into the particulars, and finally thought the plan would be a
favorable one for her husband. She asked me to go with her to see him,
and said that if he was in condition to travel he should go about with
me if he would; at any rate, if he came out of the Asylum she would put
him under my care. We went together to Brattleboro, and the very day we
arrived her husband was taken in an apoplectic fit from which he did not
recover. She carried home his corpse, and I lost my expected patient.

But I must have something to do for my daily support, and so I went to
work and very soon sold some medicines and recipes, and secured a few
patients. I also visited the adjoining villages, and in a few weeks
I had a very good practice. I might have lived here quietly and made
money. Nobody knew anything of my former history, my marriages or my
misfortunes, and I was doing well, with a daily increasing business.
And so I went on for nearly three months, gaining new acquaintances, and
extending my practice every day.

Then came the old tempter in a new form, and my matrimonial monomania,
which I hoped was cured forever, broke out afresh. One day, at the
public house