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"I regret having spoken as I did," he began "Such language is not my

custothe proposition I came to submit I certainly respect

your evident desire to be of assistance to this young wo between you Your act in

preserving her life was a truly noble one, and your loyalty to her

interests since is worthy of all Christian praise But I believe I

have a right to ask, what do you intend for the future? Keep her with

you? Drag her about fro poison of ga-holes and dance-halls? Is her hoh frontier hotel? her ideal of

ambler, and of womanhood a painted harlot?

Mr Hampton, you are evidently a man of education, of early refines; and I have co this helpless young woht, I

prayed, you would be at once interested in that purpose, and would

comprehend the reasonableness ofout of the , his eyes apparently on

the lights now beco dimly visible in the saloon opposite For a

considerable tihtened back in

his chair watching him