Excerpt from The Market for Souls<br><br>I ran across, with nearly every girl, the ques tion of the man who lives upon woman's vice. I asked over and over again, Why do you do it? Why do you give your money to the dan? Why do you allow yourself to be beaten, abused and ill-treated in every way? Theycould not really answer. Some gave the man all through love, some through fear; but in time of trouble they all show absolute loyalty. They know that when they are arrested the man will be sent to the penitentiary if they will only tell that he is living on their earnings, but there is practically never a case where the girl will betray him. She takes her punish ment, and always swears that the man is in nocent, and he goes free.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.