“Ah! This is what I call efficiency!” he exclaimed, settling himself in his big chair, adjusting the pince-nez on his hawk-bill and preparing to read the column for the third time.  “The way this thing was planned and carried out, and the manner in which Slade has managed to get it played up in the papers, proves to me he’s a general in his line, a true Napoleon.  I may safely intrust any affair of this sort to him and his agency.  No fee of his shall ever be questioned; and as for bonuses—­well, he shall have no reason to complain.  An admirable man, in every way—­a wonderful organization!  With men and agencies like these at work in our interests, what have we, really, to be uneasy about?”

Smacking his mental lips, if I may be pardoned the phrase, he once more slowly read the delightful, gratifying news: 

     SOCIALIST WHITE-SLAVER!

     Rotten Affair Unearthed by Police!

     Gabriel Armstrong, Socialist Leader, Caught With the Goods!!!

     Rochester, July 4.

“In one of the most sensational raids ever made in this city, by the vice squad, under the auspices of the Purity League, what is believed to be a well-organized white-slave business was unearthed last night.  The leader and brains of the association, Gabriel Armstrong, a Socialist speaker and worker of national prominence, was arrested, and is now lodged in Police Headquarters, with serious charges pending.

“The arrest was made as a result of the keen work of Officer Michael P. Duffey, sergeant of the vice squad.  Hearing screams in the assignation house at 42A Belding street, he made his way up stairs, accompanied by two or three citizens.  The screams were coming from a room on the second floor.  Duffey promptly battered the door down only to be met by a furious assault from Armstrong, who was intoxicated and extremely violent.

“A savage hand-to-hand struggle took place, in which furniture was broken, the policeman badly injured and two of the volunteers knocked out.  Armstrong was finally subdued, however, by the jiu-jitsu method, in which Duffey is an expert, and was lodged in the Central Station, together with the woman.

“According to her statement, the man, Armstrong, had not only been guilty of grossly immoral practices with her, but had also been trying to force her to share with him the proceeds of her life of shame, thus making out against him a clear case under the Mann White-Slave Traffic law.  She has material evidence of this fact—­money which he had given her, to finance her till she could begin bringing in revenue to him, and also his name and address, written by his own hand.  A significant fact is that the address given by this white slaver is Socialist headquarters, in Chicago.  The police are now working on the theory that the entire Socialist organization is honeycombed with this