I suggested to Nina
that she should accompany me to Florida soon after her arrival in
Boston, but she preferred remaining for a time in some boarding
school, and I made arrangements for her to be received as a
boarder in Charlestown Seminary, leaving her there while I went
South to transact business incumbent upon me as her guardian.
"How it happened I never knew, but by some accident her father's
letter to me became mixed up with her papers, and while I was gone
she read it, learning for the first time what the mystery was
which hung over her mother's fate, and also of the doom awaiting
her. She fainted, it was said, and during the illness which
followed raved in frantic fury, suffering no one to approach her
save Griswold, who, being at that time a physician in the Lunatic
Asylum at Worcester, hastened to her side, acquiring over her a
singular power. It is strange that in her fits of violence she
never speaks of me, nor yet of Charlie Hudson. Indeed, the past
seems all a blank to her, save as she refers to it incidentally as
she has to-day.
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