IN this romance of real life in which the truth is stranger than the fictionI have lifted only in part the veil that hides the victims of intemperance andother ... » 

IN this romance of real life in which the truth is stranger than the fictionI have lifted only in part the veil that hides the victims of intemperance andother terrible vicesafter they have fallen to the lower deeps of degradationto be found in our large cities where the vile and degraded herd together morelike wild beasts than men and womenand told the story of sorrow sufferingcrime and debasement as they really exist in Christian America with all theearnestness and power that in me lies. «