Patience Welcome works in the button mill at Millville, where a smooth-talking stranger who calls himself a dealer in cattle has his eye on her. As romance blooms with the son of a powerful man and a detective takes an interest, the story follows how lonely young women were drawn into the vice traffic of Chicago.
A crusading novel by the reformer who wrote My Battles with Vice, a vivid document of the white slavery panic. Download the free EPUB.