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Cast Adrift

CHAPTER XVIII
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The evil counselors that lead the soul into sin become its tormentors after the sin is committed, and torture it with fears.

So tortured they this guilty and wretched woman at every opportunity.

They led her on step by step to do evil, and then crowded her mind with suggestions of perils and consequences the bare thought of which filled her with terror.
It was only a few weeks after this that Mrs.Dinneford, while looking over a morning paper, saw in the court record the name of Pinky Swett.

This girl had been tried for robbing a man of his pocket-book, containing five hundred dollars, found guilty, and sentenced to prison for a term of two years.
"Good again!" exclaimed Mrs.Dinneford, with satisfaction.

"The wheel turns." After that she gradually rose above the doubts and dread of exposure that haunted her continually, and set herself to work to draw her daughter back again into society.


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