12.  Your editor—merely for the purpose of 
striking a foul blow at Mr. Crowley—has singled 
out from among his colleagues three ladies who 
have been noble and unselfish enough to renounce 
their professional careers in order to help in his 
work. 
These ladies are not British subjects, but your 
editor has identified them quite clearly to their 
professional, family, and private circles in England 
and America. 
He has been vile enough to accuse them, without 
one conceivable atom of justification, of practising 
public prostitution in foreign cities. 
 
“Whenever he needs money, and can-
not get it from fresh victims, he sends 
them on the streets of Palermo or 
Naples to earn it for him. 
 
“He served 
once a prison sentence in America for 
procuring young girls for a similar pur-
pose.” 
 
The last of these statements is a demonstrable 
lie, but it serves to make the first statement the 
more hurtful, gross and abominable. 
 
13.  In publishing that lie in the first instance—
well knowing that he could not justify it—and 
in silently maintaining it under challenge, your 
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