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club, the members of which he assured me would only be too glad of my services at their pederastic seances, anc my fortune would be at once assured.

This club was in a street out of Portland Place, and if you had looked in the London Directory you would simply hive found it as the residence of a Mr. Inslip—a rather suggestive name, you will think, considering the practices of the members of his club.

I afterwards found that no gentleman was admited to the freedom of this establishment unless he first paid an admission fee of one hundred guineas, besides a handsome annual subscription and liberal payments for refreshments and the procuration of boys, soldiers or youths like myself.

My financial friend duly introduced

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