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the mistress or another procurer such as

when she

as the

terminates as

her

argot or

guardian of her purchaser,

and without whose consent no

important business can be

accomplished. When redeemed the

girl becomes one of the wives of the

party redeeming her. It prostitutes

herself in a first-class brothel until the

age of thirty or less. If not

presents at certain seasons is so much a matter of course, that the purchaser regards the receipt of them

as a certainty, and demands the money, leaving only to the girl some

four or five dollars, and whatever

she may be able to retain

by misrepresenting

the amount bestowed

upon her. In the event of the purchaser dying after the admission of her

being redeemed by that time she either

rejoins her purchaser

or is sent to an inferior

brothel or becomes a servant in the

brothel. The whole of her earnings having been divided between the

purchaser and the mistress, she has

nothing unless what she

may have made from time to

time by presents given at festivals or at other times, such presents amounting

to thirty or forty dollars at a time. Even these however are not left entirely in her own hands. The bestowal of

presents after purchase into

a brothel, the

prostitute derives no benefit,

earnings are then paid to the nearest relative of the purchaser unless the husband of the purchaser

is alive in which case he receives

them as

during his wife's life. In

the case of the brothel keepers and

servants in addition to the

purchases which they themselves make, they

also bring up their own children as

prostitutes with the same conditions of payment.