FACTS ABOUT THE KALLIKAK FAMILY 79 



Early in the course of this investigation, it had been 

 learned that the father of Deborah's mother had come, 

 when a young man, to the prosperous rural community 

 where his daughter was living at the time of our in- 

 vestigation. The informant could not say whence he 

 had come, but the name of a person was given who was 

 supposed to know. Many fruitless attempts to find 

 this person were made before the object was attained. 

 When at last discovered, she turned out to be an elderly 

 lady of refinement and culture. Strangely enough, 

 long afterwards it was learned that she was connected 

 with the good side of the Kallikak family, but was all 

 unconscious of the relationship which existed between 

 it and the degenerate branch. She was delighted to 

 go back in memory and recall impressions made on her 

 mind in youth. 



She had been raised in B , a town at the foot of a 



mountain chain upon whose top the grandfather of 

 Deborah's grandfather, Martin Kallikak Jr., had always 

 lived. When she was a little girl, he was a very old 

 man. She remembered being taken to drive, when a 

 child, and seeing the old hut on the mountain, where he 

 lived with his strange daughters, "Old Moll," "Old 

 Sail, " and Jemima. The dilapidated dwelling, with its 

 windows bulging with rags, formed a picture she had 



