THE GIRL THAT DISAPPEARS
I shall not venture to explain. She yielded to the solicitations of a chance acquaintance, a man who, on one pretense or another, haunted the scene of the girl's daily toil. He was a man of good address and apparent sincerity. When after a very short acquaintance he professed affection and offered marriage, the girl accepted. Any marriage seemed better to her than the ill-paid drudgery in which she had lived. The man represented to this young girl that he was the owner of a prosperous manicuring and hair-dressing establishment, and he proposed to her that she learn the trade and help him to carry on the business, a proposal to which she gladly acceded.
There was no misrepresentation as far as the manicuring establishment was concerned. It did in fact exist but it had immoral features connected with it.
Very soon after her marriage the young woman was introduced to a group of men
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