itors. A clinking of silver was easily
recognized and Mr. Dunbar became interested. He presumed the young man
had just been arrested and naturally inquired the cause.

"Tommy, are you in trouble that you come in with an officer at this
hour?" inquired Mr. Dunbar of the supposed prisoner.

Tommy stopped and walked up to the speaker. It was some seconds before
he recognized Mr. Dunbar in the disguise of a tourist. When he did so he
hesitated to confide the truth of the circumstances, but finally
acknowledged, under promise that the informant should never be known,
that the sack contained over five thousand dollars, which had been
collected from the proprietors of just such dens of vice as Mr. Dunbar
had just visited.

"And my business is to count it, divide it into halves and quarters and
deliver the respective bundles to those who are high on the throne of
police authority."

"How often are you called upon to make this collection, division and
delivery?" asked Mr. Dunbar.

"Oh, once every six weeks or so."

With that Mr. Dunbar stepped up to the desk and with a bow naively
asked, "Can you tell me where there is a first-class gambling hall? I am
a stranger to the calling, but would like to visit one of these dens
said to be run in Chicago."

"An' who be ye thot ye want a gamblin' house at this time o' night? Get
out o' here, there be's not a gamblin' din in all Chicago fer the last
three years thot I've been on the cintral detail, is there, Jawn?"

And Mr. Dunbar took his departure with Chiquita. In her diary Chiquita
entered this: "Visited the most horrible dens of vice imaginable, the
refinement of educated debauchery, literally sitting in the lap of
political lechery, hurling defiance at virtue, decency and
respectability."

During her hospital career Chiquita had many experiences outside of the
varied occurrences in the life of a nurse, which added to rather than
detracted from the perplexities of civilizing her people. These other
scenes enacted in the great empire of industry swept all minor
attractions away, leaving a dreadful negative photographed indelibly
upon her sensitive mind, whose films reproduced with startling detail
not only the foreground of drastic events, but the background
reproduction of unswerving determination on the part of political
demagoguery which brought ruination to millions of people and even
threatened the financial fabric of the entire world; a photograph more
in accord with