Cast Adrift

Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.IN this romance of real life, in which the truth is stranger than the fiction, I have lifted only in part the veil that hides the victims of intemperance and other terrible vices – after they have fallen to the lower deeps of degradation to be found in our large cities, where the vile and degraded herd together more like wild beasts than men and women – and told the story of sorrow, suffering, crime and debasement as they really exist in Christian America with all the earnestness and power that in me lies