INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS
| “Ike Swift” | [2] |
| A spectacular dance which helped her in meeting people | [12] |
| Her swell figure made her an attraction on the beach | [18] |
| She was once the real thing on physical culture | [28] |
| A dose of knockout drops proved the turning point in her life | [38] |
| A wonderful but untrue picture of love behind the scenes | [50] |
| She has been known to kick the crown of a hat held six feet from the floor | [60] |
| Rackets where pretty girls cut capers to the music of male voices | [68] |
| He often made an honest dollar teaching American women how to smoke “hop” | [78] |
| There was disclosed the figure of a young woman rather scantily clad | [90] |
| She had such a superb figure that she once posed for a sculptor | [100] |
| Disguised as a sailor boy she shipped on one of Uncle Sam’s ships | [108] |
| For three solid hours he sat there trussed up like a chicken | [118] |
| She put herself up at auction and was promptly bid on | [128] |
| She went into the smoking car and calmly lighted a cigarette | [136] |
| She had one or two fights on her hands, but she always won out | [146] |
| She had danced the fandango in a way that made the Mexicans cheer | [156] |
| Atlantic City is the place for sporty girls who play the game to the limit | [164] |
| They had a hot time in Minneapolis when the show hit town | [174] |
| “I wasn’t arrested, but I was put out as if I were a common swindler” | [184] |
| There were times when she did things that were unconventional | [192] |
| A light flashed out on the landing and revealed the figure of a beautiful woman | [202] |
| Put her in tights and she would have been an Oriental sensation | [212] |
| The first pair are in the ring, the talk ceases, and the show is on | [220] |
| The glitter of a circus became too much for them to resist | [230] |
| Wild revelry of the masked ball and the perfect ladies with the hot sports | [240] |
| It’s only a dream after the lobster course | [250] |
| She figured once at a masked ball that was raided by the police | [260] |
| Once she had been on the stage, but she got a rough deal and quit | [268] |
| When the clock struck two she was on the table doing a dance | [278] |
CONTENTS
| A Little Easy Money | [7] |
| Casting an Old Shoe | [19] |
| The Long Way ’Round | [27] |
| The Queen of Chinatown | [39] |
| A Girl of the Golden Gate | [47] |
| When Fists Were Trumps | [57] |
| Kid and His Ten Thousand | [69] |
| An Oriental Nocturne | [79] |
| A Commercial Transaction | [89] |
| The End of the Road | [99] |
| The Throwback | [109] |
| From the Woods to Broadway | [117] |
| The Whims of Curves | [127] |
| Cheyenne Nell; Trimmer | [137] |
| Tragedy of a Dance | [147] |
| The Monologue Girl’s Story | [157] |
| A Twisted Love Affair | [163] |
| Wedding Rings and Footlights | [173] |
| Told by the Manicure Girl | [183] |
| Investing in a Husband | [193] |
| Training an Old Sport | [201] |
| Concerning a Syrian Beauty | [211] |
| The Rejuvenation of Patsy | [221] |
| A Case of Knockout Drops | [231] |
| Discovering a Prima Donna | [241] |
| A Throw of the Dice | [249] |
| A Voice in the Slums | [259] |
| A Girl of the Night | [269] |
| After the Wedding Bells | [279] |
A LITTLE EASY MONEY
A great many years ago, when Tom Byrnes was the able and efficient chief of the detective force of New York, a certain class of women, very much in evidence around the hotels and resorts, were known, from the peculiar manner of their work, as Badger Molls.
There was one in particular who had added a spectacular dance to her many other accomplishments and which helped her not a little in meeting the right kind of people.
To be a Badger Moll a woman had to have nerve, assurance, a fair amount of good looks, be able to read character and keep her wits about her at all times. There were occasions when she was up against it so good and strong that it didn’t seem as if there was one chance in a hundred for her to do her part of the trick, but in ninety times out of a hundred she landed the bundle of the victim.