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down there were simply to pass away an afternoon?
 ..Yery well; I'll go with you. You must obey my orders and let me take you where you can see the most, she said as she entered the carriage and took the seat [ 1side the girl who had first suggested the trip to the Rectangle
 "Hadn't we better take policeman along" said one of the girls, with nervous laugh. "It really isn't safe down there, you know. ]"
 There's 10 danger, " said Virginia briefly.
 els it true that Rollin has been con verted 7'' asked the first speaker, look ing at Virginia euriously. It impressed her during the drive to the Rectangle that all three of her friends were re- garding her with close attention, as if she were very peculiar.
 sYes; he certainly is. 1 saw him myself on the night of the first interest shown, a week ago Saturday, ; replied Virginia, who did not know just how to tell that scene.
 q understand he is going around to the clubs talking with his old friends there, trying to preach to them. Doesn't that seem funny - said the girl With the red silk parasol.
 Virginia did not answer, and the other girls were beginning to feel sober as tue carriage turned into the street leading to the Rectangle. As they neared the district they grew more and more nervous The sights and smells and sounds which had become familiar to Virginia struck the senses of these refined delicate society girls as some thing horrible As they entered farther into the district the Reetangle seemed to atare as with ane great bleary, beer soaked sountenance at this fine carriage with iks load of fashionably dressed young ladies "s1umming8 had fever been 8 fad with Raymond society, and this was perhaps the first time that the two had come together in this way. The girls felt that, instead of seeing the Reetangle. they were objects of eufi- osity. They were frightened and dis gusted
 Let go back. I've seen enough. . said the girl who Uas sitting with Fir. ginia.
 They were at that moment just op. posite q notorious saloon and gambling house. The street was narrow and the sidewalk crowded. Suddenly out of the door of the saloon q young woman reeled. She was singing in broken, drunken sob that seemed to indicate that she partly realized her awful con dition, Just as an. without one plea, and as the carriage rolled past she leered at it, raising her face 50 that Virginia saw 1t very close to her own. It WAS the face of the girl who had kneeled sobbing that night, with Xif= ginia kneeling beside her and praying for her
 .stopf' cried Virginia. motioning to the driver, who was looking around The carriage stopped, and in moment she was ont and had gone mp to the girl and taken her by the arm
 t.Loreents she said and that v.as all The girl looked into her face, s1ld her own changed with look of utter hor- TOT. The girls in the carriage were smitten into helpless astonishment. The saloon keeper had come to the door of the saloon and was standing there look ing on. with his hands on his hips. and the Rectangle from it's windows. it's saloon steps, its filthy sidewalk gutter and roadway paused and with undis- guised wonder stared at the two girls. Over the scene the warm sun of spring poured it's mellow light A faint breath of music from the band stand in the park floated into the Rectangle The concert had begun. and the fashion and wealth of Raymond were displaying themselves up town on the Eouletards.
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