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268 THE WHITE SLAVE MARKET
purposes. Therefore, he returned to Whitechapel
and his familiar haunts and entered
into league with several noted procuressesone
a notorious old Jezebel who has been regularly
sowing the seeds of iniquity for more
than thirty years. This old hag, with the assistance
of male
"
confederates, spread the good
news" of Lavington H.'s arrival from abroad,
and the splendid future that was in store for
girls who would go abroad and marry a real
Sultan. Lavington H. "played safety" by
staying at a first-class hotel in Piccadilly,
meeting his agents from time to time, by
appointment, on the Embankment, where ar-
rangements as to the class of girls
to be
trapped, caught, induced, or, if need be, married
for Eastern purposes, were discussed.
Sometimes only one girl would be obtainable
; at other times two or three would be
brought into the net at one catch, on one pretext
or another, and then shipped off to the
East in charge of this "pimp." When the
white girls were disposed of or suitably placed
abroad, the " pimp " would return for another
contingent. On one occasion this "pimp"
nearly came to grief. His partners in crime
had secured for him a very pretty and virtuous
girl. She did not find out the life she was
expected to lead until the ship was between
London and Colombo, and then it was the
captain of the vessel who warned her. As
she rebelled and threatened exposure, the
" "
pimp thought it prudent to quietly drop
her at Colombo, and she returned to London.