Ball Eustace Hale. Traffic in Souls: A Novel of Crime and Its Cure
CHAPTER I. NIGHT COURT
CHAPTER II. WHEN LOVE COMES VISITING
CHAPTER III. THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT
CHAPTER IV. WHAT THE DOCTOR SAID
CHAPTER V. ROSES AND THORNS
CHAPTER VI. THE WORK OF THE GANGSTERS
CHAPTER VII. THE CLOSER BOND
CHAPTER VIII. THE PURITY LEAGUE AND ITS ANGEL
CHAPTER IX. THE BUSY MART OF TRADE
CHAPTER X. WHEN THE TRAIN COMES IN
CHAPTER XI. THE POISONED NEEDLE
CHAPTER XII. THE REVENGE OF JIMMIE THE MONK
CHAPTER XIII. LORNA'S QUEST FOR PLEASURE
CHAPTER XIV. CHARITY AND THE MULTITUDE OF SINS
CHAPTER XV. THE FINISH
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Officer 4434 beat his freezing hands together as he stood with his back to the snow-laden north-easter, which rattled the creaking signboards of East Twelfth Street, and covered, with its merciful shroud of wet flakes, the ash-barrels, dingy stoops, gaudy saloon porticos and other architectural beauties of the Avenue corner.
Officer 4434 was on "fixed post."
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But it is the case against a certain policeman which receives the attention of the newspapers and the condemnation of the public, while almost unheeded are scores of heroic deeds which receive bare mention in the daily press. For the misdeed of one bad policeman the gallantry and self-sacrifice of a hundred pass without appreciation.
There have been but three recorded instances of cowardice in the annals of the New York police force. The memory of them still rankles in the bosom of every member. And yet the performance of duty at the cost of life and limb is regarded by the uniformed men as merely being "all in the day's work." The men are anxious to do their duty in every way, but political, religious, social and commercial influences are continually erecting stone walls across the path of that duty.
