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It was fifteen minutes before he returned, and when he took his place at the table opposite her the girl
did not know that he no longer wore a diamond stickpin, a watch of gold, and a diamond ring.
"Here," he said, shoving a roll of bills across the table to her. "Here's a stake for them swell clothes you
need to land a decent job."
CHAPTER VI.
SECOR'S FIANCEE.
LONG before Mr. Ogden Secor returned to the city after his grand jury service had terminated and
released him to attend to his own affairs, he had completely forgotten the girl from Farris's and his
promise of assistance to her.
It was fully a month after his return that he was reminded of the affair by the sight of the Rev. Mr. Pursen
at the home of Secor's fiance where both had dropped in of a late afternoon.
"By the way, Mr. Pursen," said Secor, "did a girl I sent to you for assistance ever apply? She was the
girl from Farris's in that case that was brought before the grand jury of which I was foreman."
"No," said the Rev. Mr. Pursen, "she did not come to me. I went to her the very day that Farris was
arrested and offered to help her; but I found her entirely unresponsive to my advances. In fact, she
seemed totally depraved, and though I labored with her I was finally forced to the conclusion that she
was one of those hopelessly lost women which nothing but death can remove from the evil life they cling
to by preference."
"Strange," said Mr. Secor; "she completely deceived me. I could have sworn that she was not innately
vicious, and that if given a chance she might easily have been helped to a better way of living."
"No," said the Rev. Mr. Pursen; "I did my poor, weak best; but it was all to no avail."
"Too bad," said Mr. Secor, and that would have been the end of it had not fate been planning the
perpetration of an odd trick upon him.
Sophia Welles entered at that moment, and both men arose to greet her.
"I have come to beg again, Miss Welles," said Mr. Pursen. "I find that our Society for the Uplift of Erring
Women is sadly in need of funds. The secretary's salary is a month in arrears; the stenographer and the
two investigators have not been paid for two weeks, and the rent is several days overdue."
"Well, well," murmured Miss Welles sympathetically, "that is too bad. We must certainly do something at
once. How much do you need, and what can you rely upon from other sources?"
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"We need about two hundred dollars at once," replied the clergyman, "and some arrangement would be
very advantageous that would assure us of a permanent income of two hundred and fifty or three hundred
dollars per month."
"I will subscribe fifty dollars toward the emergency fund at once," said Miss Welles. She looked
expectantly toward Mr. Secor.
"What is the nature of the work done by the society?" asked that gentleman.
"The name of the society is self-explanatory," returned Mr. Pursen. "The Society for the Uplift of Erring
Women."
"Roughly," Mr. Secor inquired, "how does it function?"
"Our investigators call upon the women whose cases come to our attention--usually through Municipal
Court records--and endeavor to prevail upon them to attend our Monday evening Uplift Circle. The
meetings are held in the church every Monday except during July and August. Here we enjoy a short
song service, followed by prayer, and then the women listen to helpful talks by the noble women who are
sacrificing their Monday evenings to their poor, fallen sisters."
"Do many of the women you seek to aid attend these meetings?" asked Mr. Secor.
"Unfortunately, no," admitted Mr. Pursen; "possibly five or six, on an average, I should say. The
unfortunate part of it is that they seem to have so little real desire to embrace the opportunity we are
offering them to begin life anew that seldom if ever do the same women attend our Uplift Circle a second
time. You have no conception, Mr. Secor, how discouraging is labor of this nature--the utter indifference
and ingratitude of those we would help is the first and greatest obstacle to our work."
"Just how would you help them, practically?" inquired Mr. Secor.
"By contact with good women; by the beauties of Scripture; by helpful suggestions and example; by
impressing upon them their degradation; by--ah--"
" Do you find remunerative employment for them?" asked Mr. Secor.
"We have not gone thus far as yet, though that is the ultimate object, of course."
"I should think that it would be the primary object. Between meetings they go back and earn their livings
in the old way--if you have accomplished anything it is undone at once."
"It is difficult to find people who will employ these women once we explain the sort of people they are,"
replied Mr. Pursen; "but that we hope to be able to do when we have sufficient funds to employ more
assistants."
"You have placed none of them in decent employment, then?" asked Mr. Secor.
"Not as yet--it takes time to accomplish great reforrns--Rome was not--"
"Yes, of course," interrupted Mr. Secor; "but, looking at the matter from a purely business standpoint, I
cannot see how you are going to raise sufficient funds to carry on any work until you have accomplished
something practical with what you have. If four or five paid workers, with the assistance of a number of
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volunteers, have been unable to effect the regeneration of not a single woman in the six or eight months
that the society has been organized, I should consider it a rather risky investment to subscribe any
considerable amount for the continuation of the work.
"I don't wish to discourage you," continued Mr. Secor kindly, "but charities to be effective must be
treated just as one would treat a business proposition. If a given charity is not producing results it would
be better to divert our money to other channels--there are several well-managed charities, I understand,
that are doing considerable practical good."
"Then you think that the Society for the Uplift of Erring Women is poorly managed?" asked Mr. Pursen
a trifle acridly.
"It may be and it may not--there are some things which cannot be done--impractical things. This may be
one of them; or the methods of the society may be faulty. Of course I am in no position to judge, nor do I
wish to criticise."
"I can assure you that my cousin, Miss Peebles, is a very conscientious woman," said Mr. Pursen, "and
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