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A Result of
Interference With
A Natural Law
By JOHN Y. LARNED l
Haying rwelred word th«t my grund-
fatber. tb« late I’rofeasor I>oiiueu
i ahauner, bad died in Oermnny and
bad made roe bU beir, 1 went to bU
borne In Heidelberg, where be bad al
ways lived, to settle bis estate. In
overhauling his effects 1 came upon
the following curious manuscript, writ
ten and signed by the deceased:
I see this morning by advices from
America that an eminent scientific in
vestigator claims to have discovered a
, serum for destroying the destructive
element that produces decay, or, In
other words, old age. I have conclud
ed to place my grandson, to whom l
bequeath my effects, In possession ol
facts to show that the discovery which
this American now claims as original
was made by me some years ago. I
shall not give the process by which !
preserved youth. The reason for my
not doing so will appear from the ex
perience l am about to narrate. I shall
simply give the only case which I ac
complished.
After haring succeeded with the low
er animals 1 naturally sought an op
portunity to apply my process to man-
ktnd. 1 happened about that time to
fall In with a Indy who was desirous
of marrying a man much younger than
herself. She was Kraulein Blshoff. for
ty years old. and the man was Adolf
Beutner, aged twenty. They were cous
ins and heirs to adjoining eatatea.
which would be much enhanced in
value if they could be united. Besides
this fact, Frauleln Blshoff seemed to
love the young man.
I told her that I bad discovered a
, serum by which I could keep her
young while Beutner was growing old.
It would be a long process, for It would
require twenty years for„ him to ar
rive at the same age as herself. Beut
ner, realizing that a match with his eld
erly cousin would be to his Interest,
would have gladly married her if she
had been of a suitable age (or him
The frauleln asked me to propose my
plan to him, which I did, and he
agreed to marry her, trusting to me to
keep her young till be had caught up
with her.
The marriage was delayed at my
suggestion till 1 felt assured that my
serum was producing on the Indy the
' effect I expected, but as soon as I had
evidence of this the wedding took
place. The groom immediately after
the ceremony set out to st>eud a good
deal of time in travel, being desirous
of getting rid of the Interval which
separated him from bis wife without
seeing her. lie was gone five years,
but when he returned was still too
young to make a companion of a wo
man so much older than himself. He
went away again for another five years,
when he returned with the same re
suit.
/ Meanwhile the lady, in the matter of
age, stood stock still I had no fear
that 1 might not keep her from grow
ing older, but there was one trouble
in the way that I had not thought of
in the beginning. A man of forty is
not likely to be satisfied with a wo
man of forty. He prefers a young
girl.
The matter between Herr Beut
ner and bis wife went on very much
in the same way till he was thirty-nine
years old; then he wrote her from
South Africa that he had become In
terested In diamond mining there and
was growing rich. He in time wrote
that he was tired of a nomadic life
and on the. day he'was forty would re
turn to her and settle down.
Feeling responsible for the relative
conditions existing between these two
persons, I viewed the approach of their
real nuptials with solicitude, fearing
something might occur to mar the re
sult. The lady who had waited twen
ty years for n husband, was also get
ting a trifle anxious. I did what I
eould to encourage her. hut she seemed
to have a presentment that what she
had been hoping for would not be
realized.
Three months before the time set for
the return of her husband she had
got herself into such a state of worry
that I found my serum was not acting
properly. 1 told her that If she did
not throw off her despondency we
should have a bad failure. This bad a
counter effect from what I had ex
pected. It frightened her, and she lost
control of herself. The result was a
hysterical condition, which rendered
, my hypodermic Injection absolutely in
effective.
Within a week from a woman of
forty she bad become one of sixty,
and, not being used to the presence of
the youth destroying snlmalculae In
her system, she had deteriorated far
more than she would have done under
^ ordinary circumstances. Indeed, abe
was shriveled far beyond her yeara.
Then came the most distressing fea
ture in the affair. Herr Beutner ar
rived suddenly, full of anticipation of
settling down with a companionable
- —woman as well preserved aa himself,
and stumbled Into the very room
where she was. Seeing an old crone,
he aaked her where be would find his
wife. The poor woman, realizing the
situation, pointed to a room acroea the
C l! and aa soon as he had left her
ked the door. She never aaw him
•gala - .
Aa for" »T«acov»ymWT^nr
a secret til my life, 'as 1 kept It for
tfeoN^twcnty yean that I treated Fran
Had I proceeded with ay expert-
meati perhape I would bav» achieved
fhr fai results than la (Ms
tMM. I ,vc'jrred aot ta do at.
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