THE GIRL THAT DISAPPEARS
the nature of the trade of these women. He earned many quarters by standing on a saloon corner after school and handing their business cards to men passersby.
At twelve a loyal member of a neighborhood gang, the boy was thoroughly sophisticated, entirely cynical in his moral point of view. He had a social ideal which demanded as many of the material comforts and pleasures of life as came within his knowledge without the necessity of purchasing these things with his own labor.
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