Jesus."

"Is there nothing I can do for you?" I asked. "Yes," said she faintly,
looking earnestly into my face, "Yes, there is one thing; that which I
had hoped I might live to do myself. Promise me that you will do that
and I shall die content. Promise me that you will go before the world
and speak out a warning against the awful dangers of the dance hall, and
try to save young girls from the sin, disgrace and destruction dancing
has brought upon me."

I made a solemn promise before God that her request should be complied
with.

The dying girl showed unmistakable signs of pleasure at having my
faithful promise.

She pressed my hand and said in a voice scarcely audible, "You have seen
ball-rooms as they are, my friend, and there is a great and good work
before you. May God bless you in it. I seal your promise with death,"
and before I could speak she was dead and her soul had winged its flight
to a heaven of love and peace, where weary hearts shall find perfect
love and perfect justice--where not man, but God, judges his children.

I know the man who was the perpetrator of the crime which was the cause
of this sad death.

He, to-day, instead of being hung for murder, as he so richly deserved,
is a leader in society. His name often appears in the social columns of
the daily papers of Los Angeles, as the leader of some fashionable
dancing party or Kirmess.