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and her friend in consultation over "a
cast-off baby in Dirty alley"--"If you can't get hush-money out of its
mother, you can bleed Fanny Bray"--The way to starve a baby--Pinky
moves her quarters without the use of "a dozen furniture cars"--A
baby's home--The baby's night nurse--The baby's supper--The baby's
bed--How the baby's money is spent--Where the baby's nurse passes the
night--The baby's disappearance

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