had--the villain!

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Billy, too, had his emotions. To hear that paragon, that queen among

women, descant of work done in the slums and of the mysteries of

sweat-shops; to hear her state off-hand that there were seventeen

hundred and fifty thousand children between the ages of ten and

fifteen years employed in the mines and factories of the United

States; to hear her discourse of foreign missions as glibly as though

she had been born and nurtured in Zambesi Land: all these things