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HAUNTS OF THE WHITE SLAVE TRADER 69
us would feel if some one came to us with
kind words and offered us comfort and
security and plenty to eat and drink, making
no mention of the price, but hinting in a
vague sort of way of something very simple
that would be required of us in return. Supposing
that we were ignorant and sorely in
need, is it difficult to imagine that we should
be tempted by these good offers? Or one
might even know quite well what it was
that would be asked in return for present
help, and yet, facing
the evils starvation
and loneliness, and the terror of being without
a protector or friend how long do you
suppose any one could hold out and keep
on the right way ? We must also consider
this : the ignorance of the results of immorality
is so profound that no girl knows
about the diseases she is liable to until she
that I
gets them. There is another thing
would also ask you to think about, and that
is that we who have been so fortunate and so
happy as to have been well trained, we who
have developed intelligences, and who have
many interests in life, can hardly, even by
a wild stretch of imagination, put ourselves
into the position of these foolish, innocent,
ignorant, and silly girls, who will believe
almost everything that is told to them, and
who have the most extraordinary ideas of
life. There is one Divine and lasting service
that we can do for women and girls who need
our help and protection. We can, at any
rate, provide places where they in their hour