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she had been taken away by a Salvationist.
Inquiries were made, and it was discovered
that the girl had obtained the situation
through a Registry Office at The Hague, at
25 a year. When the woman in charge of
the office heard inquiries were being made,
she at once offered to pay the girl's return
fare to Holland, although she had already
paid for her to come to England. The girl
was eventually sent back to Holland, whence
she has written several times expressing her
thanks for all that had been done for her.
We are all very pleased with these results.
But unfortunately the next little history
came to our notice too late to save the girl.
A young German girl wrote from her home
to a Registry Office in London inquiring if
she could get a situation as servant. The
woman in charge of the office wrote and told
her to come to England and she would get a
place at once. On the girl's arrival she
found that the house was a house of infamy,
and straightway went wrong. She was
rescued, but too late to save her honour, by
two gentlemen whom she happened to hear
speaking German at a railway station, and
whom she told of her trouble. They went
to the Salvation Army Depot at Eegent
Street and reported the matter. After a great
deal of difficulty some officers got the girl
away from the bad house into a Home, but she
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would not stay, the life having taken too
great a hold of her. This is a case of a quite
good girl falling on coming to London.