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no one to assist her but the lawyer, and as he
    could not prove any good reason why the child should remain with
    an immoral woman, we were given the guardianship."

    No. 9. A young girl came to San Francisco from China as a
    merchant's wife, and missionaries used to visit her at her home in
    Chinatown. Once when they went they were told that the wife had
    gone to San Jose, but she could not be traced at the latter place,
    and the missionary was suspicious. A year passed, and one night
    the door bell at the Mission rang, and when it was opened
    a Chinese girl fell in a faint from exhaustion, across the
    threshold. A colored girl stood by her holding her by the cue.
    The colored girl said she saw her running, and divined where she
    wished to go, and seizing her by the hair to prevent her being
    dragged back, rushed her to the Mission. It was the merchant's
    young wife. She had been confined in a brothel not two blocks from
    the Mission, and often saw the missionary pass by, but had no
    means of attracting her attention. The merchant told her one day
    that he wished to take her to a cousin to learn a different way of
    dressing her hair, and he would leave her there a day or two while
    he was away from town on business. The young wife went without
    fear, but never to return to virtue until she escaped to the
    Mission. She was tied to a window by day to attract custom, and at
    night tied to a bed, for she was no willing slave. When rescued
    she was horribly diseased. Three da