Was this depravity? I
would say 'No!' after reading his subsequent confession, found in
his room after his death by suicide. This was brought about by
his too intimate relations with the rector's son who contracted
St. Vitus's dance and in the delirium of a fever that followed
from nervous exhaustion told of him and his doings. A thorough
investigation took place and M. fled, a broken-hearted and
disgraced man, who, as the result of remorse, relentless
persecution, and exposure through several years, ended his life
by drowning himself. In his confession he spoke of having been
raised under a very strong moral restraint and having lived an
exemplary life, with the exception of this strange desire that
his will-power could not control.
"The next case is that of C.H. He came of an old family of brainy
men who have, and do yet, occupy prominent places in the pulpit
and the bar, and was himself a gifted young attorney. I knew him
intimately, as for six years he was a close neighbor and we were
associated in lodge-work.
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