e 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