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inform their children of the evils of the world and of the dives and pitfalls of vice. This false modesty, or failure to impart knowledge, places children face to face with danger without their suspecting any harm.
There are gambling-dens, houses of ill-fame, and various other places of vice, where young and old are led astray. The "white slave traders"--those who decoy and sell girls and young women for such places--are ever on the alert.
The author of this book has spent years in trying to rescue girls from such a life, and "Fifteen Years with the Outcast" will undoubtedly do much to counteract the influence of these places of vice and infamy.
Fathers and mothers should place this volume in the hands of their children and should encourage them to become sufficiently informed concerning such things not only to protect themselves but also to warn others.
With a desire that the influence of this book may reach the highest anticipations of the author I am
Yours in Him,
E. E. Byrum.

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I
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Little Rosa--A Warning to Mothers and Guardians
CHAPTER II
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A Visit to Sacramento--The Outcome
CHAPTER III
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My First Autoharp--I Forsake All to Follow Jesus
CHAPTER IV
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I am Introduced to the Rescue Home Family--A Glorious Test
CHAPTER V
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A Crushing Situation--Wonderful Vision--Story of Rita
CHAPTER VI
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My First Call to the Prison Work
CHAPTER VII
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Leila
CHAPTER VIII
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I Bid Farewell to the Sacramento Home
CHAPTER IX
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Woodland (Continued)--A Boycott
CHAPTER X
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A Brief Call to Sacramento--I Enter the San Francisco Field
CHAPTER XI
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I am Introduced to the Dives of Barbary Coast
CHAPTER XII
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Mary
CHAPTER XIII
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Services in County Jail, Branch No 3
CHAPTER XIV
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Lucy--A Remarkable Experience
CHAPTER XV
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We Plan for a Home for Released Prison Girls
CHAPTER XVI
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Santa Clara Experiences
CHAPTER XVII
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Callie's Wonderful Story
CHAPTER XVIII
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Callie and I Visit the Jail, the Morphine Den, and the Mission
CHAPTER XIX
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Still Southward Bound--Santa Cruz--Lucy Returns to Her Home
CHAPTER XX
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Joe's Story
CHAPTER XXI
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I Depart for Pacific Grove--Meet Lucy Again--Her Baptism
CHAPTER XXII
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Anna--We Leave for San Jose
CHAPTER XXIII
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Northward Bound--The Outcome
CHAPTER XXIV
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The Suicide of L----.--Its After-effect
CHAPTER XXV
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Good News from Home--Miss Loraine
CHAPTER XXVI
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Lucy's Letter--The School Teacher
CHAPTER XXVII
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San Quentin--We Secure a Lovely Property
CHAPTER XXVIII
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God's Best
CHAPTER XXIX
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Dedication of Beth-Adriel
CHAPTER XXX
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The Juvenile Court Commission--Henry
CHAPTER XXXI
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The Annual Board Meeting--Dollie's Story
CHAPTER XXXII
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Lost Sheep--The Ex-prisoners' Home--Hospital Scenes
CHAPTER XXXIII
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A Wonderful Leading--How Girls Are Lured to the Dance-halls
CHAPTER XXXIV
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The Women of B--- up in Arms--The Sisters Taken Home
CHAPTER XXXV
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Santa Cruz--Beba's Letter--The Earthquake
CHAPTER XXXVI
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Relief Duty--San Francisco--Miss B----
CHAPTER XXXVII
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The Home Repaired--Mrs. S----'s Experience
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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The Annual Board Meeting--Results
CHAPTER XXXIX
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A Trip East--I Escape from a Confidence Woman
CHAPTER XL
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My Homeward Journey--Land for the Training School and Home
CHAPTER XLI
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I Call on the Governor and Then Go South
CHAPTER XLII
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Los Angeles Dance-halls and Other Places
CHAPTER XLIII
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Woman Employed at Dance-hall Tells of Many Pitfalls
CHAPTER XLIV
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Sarah
CHAPTER XLV
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The Women Prisoners of San Quentin
CHAPTER XLVI
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Vallejo, Mare Island, and Alcatraz
CHAPTER XLVII
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Irene's Awful Fate--The Wages of Sin
CHAPTER XLVIII
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My Return to the Missionary Field
CHAPTER XLIX
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Some Precious Letters from Precious Children
CHAPTER L
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Conclusion

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Florence (Mother) Roberts
The Dive-keeper's Daughter
Mary
The Redwood City Street Meeting
Scene in a Morphine Den
"99 years, Mother Roberts!" Poor Joe!
View of Yard and Prisoners' Quarters, Represa, near Folsom
Bird's Eye View of San Quentin
"Everybody helped grease the hill I was sliding down. I soon reached the bottom"
Poor Elsie!
Scene in a Dive Dance-hall
The Chittenden Home
Some Mother's Wandering Girl
San Quentin. Prison Yard
View of Warden's House, etc., Represa

LIST OF SONGS.
Words and Music by Mother Roberts.
The Messengers (the Doves)
Her Voice
Still Nearer
Was It You?
The Songs My Mother Sang
The Value of a Song
Some Mother's Wandering Girl

INTRODUCTION
REPLYING TO YOUR QUESTION.
"How did it happen that you became so deeply interested in rescue work, Mrs. Roberts?"
Hundreds of times has this question been asked of me in various parts of this State (California). In order, whenever time and place permitted, to answer intelligently, I have replied by relating the story of my conversion, through a vision, which occurred on the afternoon of Sunday, Sept. 13, 1896.
For some time prior to this, with my husband, J. H. Roberts, a mining man, also my son, an only child of fourteen, I had been living about two and one-half miles from Angels, Calaveras County, California.
For lack of means to carry on the development work of the mine which Mr. Roberts was at this time superintending, it closed. In order to increase finances in our hour of need, I gave piano lessons. My health, never in those days very robust, soon succumbed to the severe nervous strain to which it was now continually subjected.
THE VISION.
On the never-to-be-forgotten date of my spiritual birth, whilst I was enjoying a much-needed rest and reading a novel, everything in the room seemed suddenly to be obliterated from my view; I became oblivious of my surroundings and was apparently floating in an endless vista of soft, beautiful, restful light.
I was quite conscious of rising to a sitting position, pressing my left elbow into the pillow, and with the right hand rubbing both eyes in an endeavor to see once more my natural surroundings. But no! Instead, suspended in this endless light, appeared a wonderful colossal cross of indescribable splendor. This wonderful cross