The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-04

heen taking. SIZE was sound enough me',.
tally then to understand the whole deception
"She packed her trunks, left in her hus-
bands absence. and deliberately went 10 10
a hotel In Saratoga. For days her family
did not know whore she was When az
last they discovered her II was to ind that
the whole work was undone;
died within a year, pitiful wreck. The
trouble was that none OF ua had ever LOT
one instant had the patients will with u.s.
The drug had destroyed her moral nature.
my reputation in this case brought me
two others Of the same kind IN succession,
Of the most attractive men ever>saw;
"Ths popularity Of his case was that that
his condition was apparently perfectly
normal He would sing and play delight
fully, entertain house full Of guests. ne
was the pet OF the family, with the sunniest'
sweetest disposition possible.
And yet ne had pawned all his sisters
and his mothers jewelry. had hardy
entered the house before he took my waton
away to be mended, In the politest manner
possible-and pawned It,.
"He would buy box Of expensive shirts
and take them directly to pawnshop.
He had carried off clocks and brio, -brso
to pawn. II he hadn't been watched ne
would, have pawned the entire contents
Of the house. ,-,.
-And he would get away alone and drink
exactly like the first one, and his brothers
would have to trace him down among the
Bowery dives. And yet with 1t all he was
80 normal and so charming between times
that he would fool everyone, a.
AT times n partial realization OF MS
condition would come over him, ana ne
would cry like child. From first to last
there were sixteen doctors on that case,
and it ended in nervous breakdown, hystero-
epilepsy and death.
My third fiend was handsome. middle
aged matron who had been a good VIE
and mother and a splendid housekeeper.
Her family adored her Here again was
big housefl of servants, and she had been
sending them to get the stuff for her; or
she would 20 to Turkish baths and bride
the attendants 10 60 out and. get It for her.
Her mania was not pawning, but getting
things on credit. Her husband had an
account at a store and she had almost
ruined him before he found out what she
was about.
Great heaps and piles OF stuff she would
buy which she never even attem pied to
use. He stopped the account there, and
other stores He followed her to each
and stopped it, and then she would 60 and
have furious rows with the managers over
it. All Of which was totally foreign to her
normal nature.
THE poor man was nearly dead with
ID0 SUaIno ana anxiety Oh IL. ~ tulHcu
him gray in a very short space OF time.
we played the same game in her case
as we did in the first one The difference
was that when, by reducing the solution
we had got her to point where she could
listen to reason we laid the whole matter
before her and told her she could never
be cured unless she would 60 to a place
where it was impossible to get the drug.
"She brought her will to bear and con-
scented to 60 with me away to lonely farm
house. miles from drugstore, where there
was no one that could or would get her
the drug, She eventually recovered en-
tirely, and was so bitter against morphine
that I believe she would die in agony be-
fore she would allow it to be given her.
Her moral nature had not been destroyed.
But l GUESS the difference was that she
had different moral nature to start with
from the other two.
THAT ended my detective cases. I
never would take another. TWAS too nerve
racking. But II you could get all the trained
nurses in New York to tell you what they
know, you wouldn't need any more at ories. '