Sentence:  When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the <WSD>attraction</WSD>. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The feeling of being attracted.