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CHAPTER XI.
Reserve between mother and daughter--Mrs. Dinneford disapproves of Edith's charitable visits--Mrs. Dinneford meets Freeling by appointment at a hotel--"There's trouble brewing"--"A letter from George Granger"--Accused of conspiracy--Possibility of Granger's pardon by the governor--An ugly business--In great peril--Freeling's threats of exposure--A hint of an alternative

CHAPTER XII.
Mr. Freeling fails to appear at his place of business--Examination of his bank accounts--It is discovered that he has borrowed largely of his friends--Mrs. Dinneford has supplied him $20,000 from her private purse--Mrs. Dinneford falls sick, and temporarily loses her reason--"I told you her name was Gray--Gray, not Bray"--Half disclosures--Recovery--Mother and daughter mutually suspicious--The visitor--Mrs. Dinneford equal to the emergency--Edith thrown off the track

CHAPTER XIII.
Edith is satisfied that her babe is alive--She has a desire to teach the children of the poor--"My baby may become like one of these"--She hears of a baby which has been stolen--Resolves to go and see it, and to apply to Mr. Paulding of the Briar street mission for assistance in her attempt--Mr. Paulding persuades her that it is best not to see the child, and promises that he himself will look after it--Returns home--Her father remonstrates with her, finally promises to help her

CHAPTER XIV.
Mr. Dinneford sets out for the mission-house--An incident on the way--Encounters Mr. Paulding--Mr. Paulding makes his report--"The vicious mark their offspring with unmistakable signs of moral depravity; this baby has signs of a better origin"--A profitable conversation--"I think you had better act promptly"

CHAPTER XV.
Mr. Dinneford with a policeman goes in quest of the baby--The baby is gone--Inquiries--Mr. Dinneford resolves to persevere--Cause of the baby's disappearance--Pinky Swett's curiosity--Change of baby's nurse--Baby's improved condition--Baby's first experience of motherly tenderness--Baby's first smile--"Such beautiful eyes"--Pinky Swett visits the St. John mission-school-- Edith is not there

CHAPTER XVI.
Mr. Dinneford's return, and Edith's disappointment--"It is somebody's baby, and it may be mine"--An unsuspected listener--Mrs. Dinneford acts promptly--Conference between Mrs. Dinneford and Mrs. Hoyt, alias Bray--The child must be got out of the way--"If it will not starve, it must drown"--Mrs. Dinneford sees an acquaintance as she leaves Mrs. Hoyt's, and endeavors to escape his observation--A new danger and disgrace awaiting her

CHAPTER XVII.
Mental conditions of mother and daughter--Mr. Dinneford aroused to a sense of his moral responsibilities--The heathen in our midst--The united evil of policy-lotteries and whisky-shops--The education of the policy-shops

CHAPTER XVIII.
News item: "A child drowned"--Another news item: Pinky Swett sentenced to prison for robbery--Baby's improved condition--Mrs. Burke's efforts to retain the baby after Pinky Swett's imprisonment--Baby Andy's rough life in the street--Mrs. Burke's death--Cast upon the world--Andy's adventures--He finds a home and a friend

CHAPTER XIX.
Mr. Dinneford visits the mission-school--A comparison of the present with the past--The first mission-school-- Reminiscences of the school in its early days--The zealous scholar--Good effects of the mission--"Get the burning brands apart, or interpose incombustible things between them"--An illustration--"Let in light, and the darkness flees"

CHAPTER XX.
"The man awoke and felt the child against his bosom, soft and warm"--Led by a little child--"God being my helper, I will be a man again"--A new life--Meeting of an old friend--A friend in need--Food, clothes, work--A new home--God's strength our only safety

CHAPTER XXI.
Intimate relations of physical and moral purity--Blind Jake--The harvest of the thieves and beggars--Inconsiderate charity--Beggary a vice--"The deserving poor are never common beggars"--"To help the evil is to hurt the good" The malignant ulcer in the body politic of our city--The breeding-places of epidemics and malignant diseases--Little Italian street musicians--The existence of slavery in our midst--Facts in regard to it

CHAPTER XXII.
Edith's continued interest in the children of the poor--Christmas dinner at the mission-house--Edith perceives Andy, and feels a strange attraction toward him--Andy's disappearance after dinner--Pinky Swett has been seen dragging him away--Lost sight of

CHAPTER XXIII.
Christmas dinner at Mr. Dinneford's--The dropped letter--It is missed--A scene of wild excitement--Mrs. Dinneford's sudden death--Edith reads the letter--A revelation--"Innocent!"--Edith is called to her mother--"Dead, and better so!"--Granger's innocence established--An agony of affection--No longer Granger's wife

CHAPTER XXIV.
Edith's sickness--Meeting of Mrs. Bray and Pinky Swett--A trial of sharpness, in which neither gains the advantage--Mr. Dinneford receives a call from a lady--The lady, who is Mrs. Bray, offers information--Mr. Dinneford surprises her into admitting an important fact--Mrs. Bray offers to produce the child for a price--Mr. Dinneford consents to pay the price on certain stipulations--Mrs. Bray departs, promising to come again

CHAPTER XXV.
Granger's pardon procured--How he receives his pardon--Mrs. Bray tries to trace Pinky home--Loses sight of her in the street--Mrs. Bray interviews a shop-woman--Pinky's destination--The child is gone

CHAPTER XXVI.
Mrs. Bray does not call on Mr. Dinneford, as she promised--Peril to Andrew Hall through loss of the child--Help--Edith longs to see or write to Granger, but does not--Edith encounters Mrs. Bray in the street--"Where is my baby?"--Disappointment--How to identify the child if found

CHAPTER XXVII.
No trace of Andy--Account of Andy's abduction--Andy's prison--An outlook from prison--A loose nail--The escape--The sprained ankle--The accident

CHAPTER XXVIII.
Edith's visit to the children's hospital--"Oh, my baby! thank God!