The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-17
Y L. 7. MEADE AND ROBERT
EUsTAcE.
Copyright 1906 by w. c. Chapman.


to go as far as this"
Lady Faulkner, do you quite real;zs
| what you are saving9''
/ realize everything Oh Mr. Hal
/ you were right Madame is the mo-
/ terrible woman in all the world ST.
told me that | might bring the bow ~
| London in Safety-that she had
ranged matters so that his fo+S
should not recognize him-so that ~
j would not recognize his father. 7 NJ
TO bring him straight here. and IT,.
] to her TO put things right ! never -
| she meant this. / have just looked ~.
his face. and he is changed: he is - At
rible to look at now. Oh. my Col,
/ this will kill me.
You must tell me all, LADY Fsrr,
ner.t 1 said. You have eornrittl.5
yourself nOw-you have as good 90
| confessed the truth. Then the cbfS
| this child--is indeed Durham's son9,s
| That child is LOTUS Durham's g.
/ Yes, | am the most miserable woman -
! the universe. Do what you win w5.h
me- Oh yes ] could bring myself ~
steal the boy. but not, not TO 90 ~
/ this last extreme step. This is mur-
] der, Mr.. Head. If Mr.. Durham dies
ana guilty of murder Is there no
chance of his life?"
The only chance is for you TO tell
me everything as quickly as you cam
1 answered.
L will" she replied. She pulled her-
self together. and began to speak hur-
] richly.
81 will tell you all in as few words
as possible, but in order that Won
should understand why I committed
this awful crime, you must know
something of my early history.
My father and mother died from
shock after the death of three baby
brothers in succession Each of these
! children lived to be a year old. and
then each succumbed TO the same
dreadful malady. and sank into an
early grave. / was brought up by an
aunt. who treated me sternly. sup
pressing all affection for me. and do
ing her utmost to get me married off
| her hands as quickly as possible. Sir
John Faulkner fell in love with me
when l was eighteen, and asked me To
be his wife. I loved him. and eagerly
consented. On the day when 1 gave
my consent l met our family doctor. I
told him Of my engagement and Of
the unlooked-fOr happiness which had
suddenly dawned on my path. To M
establishment old Dr. Macpherson told
me that / die wrong TO marry.
There s terrible disease in your
family he said; you have no night 10
marry
He then told me an extraordinary
and terrible thing. He said that in my
family on the mothers side was dis
ease which is called pseudo-hypertro-
phic muscular paralysis. This strange
hisease is hereditary, but only attacks
the male members of a house, all the
females absolutely escaping. You
have doubtless heard of it?"
] bowed 1T is one of the most ter
rible hereditary diseases known I re-
piled
Her eyes began to diIate.
DIR. Macpherson told me about It
that dreadful day" she continued. He
said that my three brothers had died
of IL. that they had inherited it on the
mothers side; that my mothers
brothers had also died of IT, and that
she. although escaping herself had
communicated it to her male children
He told me that if I marriad. any boys
who were born to me would in all
probability die of this disease.
Il listened to him shocked I went
back and told my aunt She laughed
at my fears, told me that the doctor
was deceiving me, assured me that I
should do very wrong to refuse such
an excellent husband as Sir John, and
warned me never to repeat a word Of
what had heard with regard to my
own family to him. In short, she forced
on the marriage.
81 cannot altogether blame her. for
L also was only too ANXIOUS TO escape
from my miserable life and but half
believed the doctors story.
L married to find. alas. that I had
not entered into paradise. My hus-
band, although he loved me, told me
frankly. week after our marriage
that his chief reason for marrying me
was to have healthy heir to his house
He said that I looked strong. and he
believed my children would be healthy
He was quite morbid on this subject
We were married nearly three years
before our child was born. Ny hus-
band was almost beside himself WITH
rejoicing when this took place. Il was
not until the baby lay in my arms
that / suddenly remembered what I
had almost forgOttenAOld DR.. Mac
pherson's warning The child. how
ever. looked perfectly strong. and I
trusted that the dreadful disease would
not appear in him.
when the baby was four months old
my husband was suddenly obliged 10
leave home in order to visit India. He
was to be absent about a year. Until
little Keith was a year old he remained
perfectly healthy. then strange symp-
toms began. The disease commenced
in the muscles of the calves of the legs,
which became much enlarged. The
child suffered from great weakness
he could only walk by throwing his
body from side TO side at each step.
'In terror I watched his symptoms.
1 took him then to see DR.. Macpherson.
He told me that / had neglected his
warning. and that my punishment had
begun. He said there was not the
slightest hope for the child-that the
might live for a few months, but would
in the end die.
II returned home, mad with misery.
I dared not let my husband know the
truth. / knew that if 1 did he would
render my life a. hell. for the fate which
had overtaken my first child would be
the fate of every other boy born to me.
Ny misery was beyond any words
Last winter, when baby's Illness had
just begun, I came up to town
brought the child with me-he grew
worse daily. When in town. ] heard Of
the great fame of Nine. Koluchy and
her wonderful cures. / went to see her,
and told her my pitiful story. She
shook her head when ] described the
features of the case. said that no medi-
cine had ever yet been discovered for
this form of muscular paralysis. but
said she would think over the case, and
asked me to call upon her again.
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