New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-05

forehead - crown.
| believed with unsuitable conviction
that work -unrclaXing work -andwll power
would keep me alive. | knew likcwi-c that
! could and would die within the day 40 any
time | permitted myself % give up the
fight. one day my aching and badly over
worked heart went wrong. The pam bc.
came SO exquisite that | could neither
stand. sit. nor liz down without tainting. \
device with padded straps passing under my
armpits and thighs was hastily rugged up by
DR.. Cottlc, and for three days and nights
hung suspended from the wall Of my room,
debating my correspondence % Mis- Moore,
who blottci many Of her notes with tears.
MORRIS did not return, nor did We ever
~ hear from him. Although hi, long ab-
scncc worried Carroll, WAS rather pleased
than otherwise, until one memorable day II
August.
When | was carried 90 my desk that
morning Miss Moore took her place beside
me, glass Of water in her hand.
II do not want q drink just now, ! sad,
thanking her.
40, Sir, but YOU will
There was something in her voice that
irritatcl me- and looked up quickly for an
explanation. Her expression was unwont-
cily serious, and she pointed e. Il letter
topping the pile on my desk; then, hand
ing the glass % langstak, She LETT the room.
picked up the letter indicated, glanced
over the contents and the notice of the
thirty-day note clipped 20 it. II was a
formal notification that a note drawn by
Norris for scvcntv-hvc thousand dollars,
with eighty thousand in securities attached,
was due and payable in five days. Il was
signed by the head Of private banking
firm in Memphis.
| drank the water,
Somehow. after the first shock WAS over,
it scarcely bothered me. My first thought
was the frightful mental torture ahead for
Carroll who should have guarded orr bank
roll more carefully. Then | realized that
now | simply couldn't die!
sent for Carroll at once. 10 have il over
and buried. We were financially wiped of the
slate, with only the chance Of the Acme to
pull us through, and our personal assets to
draw on meanwhile
TO sell the stock We held in Our group Of
lead mines would be dangerous confession
of weakness, aside from the fact that their
control was an absolute necessity 10 the
successful operation Of the Acme Smcltcr
Otherwise We should be actually at the
mercy Of the lead trust, whose lack Of that
virtue was provcrbll.
My decision. TO which Carroll silently
and sadly agreed, was TO let the securities
go, keep absolutely mum about Our loss,
meet the running expenses 10 the extent
Of our personal resources, and trust to fate.
LangStak, Of course, was always with me,
and took silent but intense interest in my
work. The night after Carroll and ! had
scheduled our Joint resources, and arranged
for their use by the firm, my man handed
me an cnvclop containing five hundred
dollars.
81 get hccm from Sweden, he explained.
81 lax to hat YOU take hccm. Maybe he
help little
This evidence Of devotion touched me
pretty deeply. finally persuaded Langstak
that 1t was not necessary.
do not think DR.. Cottlc considered me
as a human being. Rather, was an inter
csting, perhaps remarkable, specimen upon
which TO experiment. Morning and night
came the injections of his solution. The
tiny wounds often took week to heal put
ting him at a loss for new places 10 puncture
me. Still on a diet of milk and olive oil, | at
intervals took some other type Of liquid
food My weight remained stationaryat one
hundred and eight pounds, which Cottle as
serted, probably with truth, was the first