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242 THE WHITE SLAVE MARKET
justice so far they have had too much consideration
and indulgence. Let us give them
justice now.
A girl I once engaged for secretarial
work related a dreadful experience. She
had been engaged as secretary to a registry
office of a
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very swagger description in
the West End. It was run by a smart
woman who was as wicked as she was
clever, and who lent herself with alacrity to
the procuring of girls for immoral purposes
by men. In one case a man had engaged
from this woman's office six girls one after
another. He was a rich man, and had a
nice house a little way from town. It was in
a lonely place and he had a housekeeper,
a woman also in his pay. He paid five
pounds down for having girls sent to him.
The girl afterwards told me that when
the sixth engagement was made, five girls
had already returned furiously indignant at
the insults to which they had been subjected
during their first night in the house. She
remonstrated with the woman for sending
another girl to this place. The woman was
very much enraged and told her to mind her
own business, and within a week the girl
found herself dismissed.
All these cases accentuate the dangers
which confront young girls, and all those
societies which exist to help them need our
loyal support. We would commend to the
notice of the public who are interested in this
question the splendid work done by the