 Why did Linton spend time in an asylum?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, March 1961. Linton lay down his steel fork beside the massively solid transparency of the restaurant water glass. "The man who isn't Snead is leaving," Linton said, describing the scene over Howell's shoulder. He's not Sherlock Holmes or the Frankenstein Monster—there's no doubt or semantic leeway to the thing." Even after they had let him out of the asylum as cured, he still secretly believed he had known a genuine affection for her. Linton asked, thinking: God? But by saying something so patently ridiculous, Linton hoped to bring the contradicting truth to the surface immediately. "But it's wonderful," Linton said, thinking his immediate thoughts.
 he committed murder
 he invested in bad stocks  he committed murder  suffers from delusions and hallucinations  his wife died from cancer