No policeman accompanies the group.

The girls are under no manner of duress.

They have promised to go home with Miss Miner, and they go.

The night's adventure, entered into with dread, with callous indifference, or with thoughtless mirth, ends in a quiet bedroom and a pillow wet with tears.
[Illustration: IN THE NIGHT COURT, NEW YORK.] Waverley House, as Miss Miner's home is known, has sheltered, during the past year, over three hundred girls.

Out of that number one hundred and nineteen have returned to their homes, or are earning a living at useful work.
One hundred and nineteen saved out of five thousand prodigals! In point of numbers this is a melancholy showing, but in comparison with other efforts at rescue work it is decidedly encouraging.
Nothing quite like Waverley House has appeared in other American cities, but it is a type of detention home for girls which is developing logically out of the probation system.