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The People of the Abyss

CHAPTER XXIII--THE CHILDREN
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Since that time about twenty days have elapsed, and nothing has yet been done.
Is this a singular case?
By no means; it is quite common." Last week the police raided a disorderly house.

In one room were found two young children.

They were arrested and charged with being inmates the same as the women had been.

Their father appeared at the trial.

He stated that himself and wife and two older children, besides the two in the dock, occupied that room; he stated also that he occupied it because he could get no other room for the half-crown a week he paid for it.


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