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into the room and stood looking at the stranger. She 

 had somehow managed to live. All the rest .of the 

 children, except the two that the mother was carrying, 

 had died in infancy. 



The following is a story of Guss, whose position will 

 be found on Chart IX, section A. 



When young, he married a normal girl who belonged 

 to a decent family, but had no education. After a few 

 months the mother of our Deborah came to visit them. 

 She was then a young girl, ready to associate with any 

 man who would look at her. The two behaved so 

 badly that the wife turned her out. This was the first 

 knowledge the wife had of the character of her husband. 

 She lived with him ten years or more. In that time 

 he did not average three months' work out of twelve, 

 so she had, practically, to support him and her ever 

 increasing family. She knew that he was untrue to her, 

 but there was no way to prove it. At last she seemed 

 to grasp the situation. She began to believe that there 

 was something wrong with him mentally, wrong with 

 the whole family, so she decided to leave him. She 

 took her six living children, rented another house and 

 turned him adrift. He went at once to live with a 

 feeble-minded girl belonging to a low-grade family of 



