pleasure-loving his own life may be, feels it a moral duty to regard the
offender as hopelessly damned and to help in hounding him out of society.
At very brief intervals cases occur, and without reaching the newspapers
are more or less widely known, in which distinguished men in various
fields, not seldom clergymen, suddenly disappear from the country or
commit suicide in consequence of some such exposure or the threat of it.
It is probable that many obscure tragedies could find their explanation in
a homosexual cause.

Some of the various tragic ways in which homosexual passions are
revealed to society may be illustrated by the following
communication from a correspondent, not himself inverted, who
here narrates cases that came under his observation in various
parts of the United States. The cases referred to will be known
to many, but I have disguised the names of persons and places:--

"At the age of 14 I was a chorister at ---- church, whose
choirmaster, an Englishman named M.W.M., was an accomplished man,
seemingly a perfect gentleman, and a devout churchman. He never
seemed to care for the society of ladies, never mingled much with
the men, but sought companionship with the choristers of my age.
He frequently visited at the homes of his favorites, to tea, and
when he asked the parents' consent for George's or Frank's
company on an excursion or to the theater, and then to spend the
night with him, such request was invariably granted. I shall ever
remember my first night with him; he began by fondling and
caressing me, quieting my alarm by assurances of not hurting me,
and after invoking me to secrecy and with promises of many future
pleasures, I consented to his desire or passion, which he seemed
to satisfy by an attempt at _fellatio_. 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 h