The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-05-08
~ ELEANOR INGRAM

eigns and form into too many OF
their itching palms. But not n man
Jack OF them was ashamed 10
pocket his euineas for politely tell.
Ing mo | was as mad as n halter
20 think OF such thing as really
was tho matter with me-"
And In the endf"
In tho end struck fellow
with an open mind-but not In
EnglRnd-and II | said that he
! literally opened mine II might be
an etREgeTation. but that's all lie
did 70 prospecting sn my skull
risksd his reputation as against my
life but We both came out on top. +"
And you've been your own man
ever since?"
Il Was cured Doctor Dollar
answered with tense simplicity. 1T
was n miraculous cure. and yet no
miracle. Anybody could perform
It's like. given the nerve and skin
Yet u seemed 20 me q new thing.
It's possibilities were almost ap-
paliinE ~ their fascination. re.
solved 10 qualify. so that at least I
might be Ia a position TO do as 7
bad been done by. I had already
left the service: but my fighting
days were not over was going
10 fight Crime as IL had never been
fought beforel"
There was challenge IN the
pause made here. But tho listener
did not take II MP. and the ha.
rangue ended on n humber note:
Il studied at 81, Mary's under
men whose names you know M well
a. they know yours. was at Bcr.
lin and in Stockholm. Before | was
30 had put up my plate In Wei.
beck St. and there I am still"
And yet" said the home secre-
tary. with a faint smile-"and yet
tho possibilities are still only pos
sibiliiiesi"
ION the surgical side. yes: there
I was misled by my own abnormal
case. Yet there are ways OF curing
even what ! regard as tho very
worst type OF congenItal criminal
at tho present day"
Il wish ] knew OF sonnet said
Mr. Vinson cheerily. but what do
you regard as the very worst type
OF congen!tal criminal at the pres.
en-, day7'
THE society type" replied the
crime doctor without an instant's
hesitation.
His host permitted himself to
open his eyes once more.
Your ideas arc rather sensa.
tional. aren't they. Doctor Dollar7"
IT'S rather sensational age.
isn't Il. Mr.. Vlnson7 When society
women make living out OF
bridge. traffic In tickets for royal
enclosures. charge a fat fee for a
presentation Mt court, and small
fortune for launching an unlikely
family In their own set. there must
be some reason for It apart from
their own depravity.
They are no more naturally de-
PRAYED than I am, but their purse
is perhaps even smaller. and their
wants are certainly ten times as
great. Cupidity is not the motive
power: it's simple shortage OF the
needful--from their point OF view
SO We get our good ladies' with
their tariff OF introductions. It's
short step from that sort OF thing
to n shady trick. and from n shady
trick to downright crime. But it's
step often taken by the type /
mean-tho not necessarily with
their eyes open. And that's just
where the crime doctor should
come In"
In opening their eyes?"
"In saving EN- from themselves
while they're still worth saving.
in that prevention which is better
than cure"
Tn other words. you would tackle
character as ordinary doctors and
persons devote themselves to the
body and the soul7"
1T would come to that, Mr.. Vim
son. It's large order, know.
and I don't expect to see the goods
delivered in my time. II will take
better men than am, and many OF
EN-. But that's the idea, all right"
What about the practice7" asked
Topham Vinson,
Rome took less building than
n London practice, by an unknown
man striking out now line for
himself"
II really don't wonder Who
would come TO consult you about n
homlcidal tendency, or trick OF
tamperlng with special offertories7"
I'm the first instance, most likely.
the patients people; then they
might send him TO see mo on sona