She goes away, and temptation lies close at her feet.

It is her extremity and the evil one's opportunity.

So far she has kept herself pure, but the disgrace of a public prosecution and a sentence to prison are terrible things to contemplate.

She is in peril of her soul.

God help her! Who is this dressed in rusty black garments and closely veiled, who comes up from the restaurant, one of the convenient and unsuspected entrances to this robber's den ?--for a "policy-shop" is simply a robbery shop, and is so regarded by the law, which sets a penalty upon the "writer" and the "backer" as upon other criminals.