The War Cry . ess and homeless,and there seemed nothing for her butto return to Piccadilly again. She did so~ and on thecold, grey kerbstones. Her unholysisterhood called the Rescue Officer toher, and the Adjutant got her con-veyed to lodgings, where she shortlyafterwards died. A Piccadilly Tragedy. Then, on another night; the Ad-jutant came across a poor creaturelying on. the pavement. She wasS-oung, and clad in a flowing pale-bluedress; her yellow hair hurig dishev-elled around her marble-hued face,and her eyes were staring up into thesky with the fixity of death. The police to
The War Cry . ess and homeless,and there seemed nothing for her butto return to Piccadilly again. She did so~ and on thecold, grey kerbstones. Her unholysisterhood called the Rescue Officer toher, and the Adjutant got her con-veyed to lodgings, where she shortlyafterwards died. A Piccadilly Tragedy. Then, on another night; the Ad-jutant came across a poor creaturelying on. the pavement. She wasS-oung, and clad in a flowing pale-bluedress; her yellow hair hurig dishev-elled around her marble-hued face,and her eyes were staring up into thesky with the fixity of death. The police took the sad remainsaway in, a cab to the mortuary. Yes, there are blood-stains on thegrey stones of Piccadilly. Blood and sorrow! Who are they? From where dothey come? I asked my companion. The sights I saw and the stories Iheard were harrowing my very soul. Most of them were brought here byevil circumstances, said the Adjutant,circumstances that, without Christ tohelp, they were powerless to with-stand. ?•. Rescue1 Officers Taking a Girl to;a •:.. ;??;?/?:;?;;.??.? Three young women, arm-in-nrm,were proceeding along the pavementin front of us. The middle of the threewas a handsome brunette. She wastall and bareheaded, and her dark,glossy tresses were coiled in a massiveGrecian knot. Her silken skirta andwhite satin slippers looked out of placeou the paving-stones, but not more sothan she herself did in that vile the middle girl, whisperedthe Adjutant. She is one of threechildren who all have gone mother died when they werevery young, and they were brought upin a public-house. The sister wentwrong soon after her twelfth year, thebrother is in a reformatory, and thisgirl—just barely twenty—is as you knows to what temptations andevil circumstances these three childrenwere exposed? I asked if it were not possible to getthe girl to abandon this awful life, butthe Adjutant said that the girl hadno recollections of apiou
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