d struggle back to life--Her mind a
blank--Granger convicted of forgery--Seeks to gain knowledge of his
child--The doctor's evasion and ignorance--An insane asylum instead of
State's prison--Edith's slow return to intelligence--"There's something
I can't understand, mother"--"Where is my baby?"--"What of George?"--No
longer a child, but a broken hearted woman--The divorce

CHAPTER IV. Sympathy between father and daughter--Interest in public
charities--A dreadful sight--A sick babe in the arms of a half-drunken
woman--"Is there no law to meet such cases?"---"The poor baby has no
vote!"--Edith seeks for the grave of her child, but cannot find
it--She questions her mother, who baffles her curiosity--Mrs. Bray's
visit--Interview between Mrs. Dinneford and Mrs. Bray--"The baby
isn't living?"--"Yes; I saw it day before yesterday in the arms of a
beggar-woman"--Edith's suspicions aroused--Determined to discover the
fate of her child--Visits the doctor--"Your baby is in heaven"--"Would
to God it were so, for I saw a baby in hell not long ago!"

CHAPTER V. Mrs. Dinneford visits Mrs. Bray--"The woman to whom you
gave that baby was here yesterday"--The woman must be put out of the
way--Exit Mrs. Dinneford, enter Pinky Swett--"You know your fate--New
Orleans and the yellow fever"--"All I want of you is to keep track of
the baby"--Division of the spoils--Lucky dreams--Consultation of the
dream-book for lucky figures--Sam McFaddon and his backer, who "drives
in the Park and wears a two thousand dollar diamond pin"--The fate of a
baby begged with--The baby must not die--The lottery-policies

CHAPTER VI. Rottenness at the heart of a great city--Pinky Swett's
attempted rescue of a child from cruel beating--The fight--Pinky's
arrest--Appearance of the "queen"--Pinky's release at her command--The
queen's home--The screams of children being beaten--The rescue of
"Flanagan's Nell"--Death the great rescuer--"They don't look after
things in here as they do outside--Everybody's got the screws on, and
things must break sometimes, but it isn't called murder--The coroner
understands it all"

CHAPTER VII. Pinky Swett at the mercy of the crowd in the street--Taken
to the nearest station-house--Mrs. Dinneford visits Mrs. Bray
again--Fresh alarms--"She's got you in her power"---"Money is of no
account"--The knock at the door--Mrs. Dinneford in hiding--The visitor
gone--Mrs. Bray reports the woman insatiable in her demands--Must have
two hundred d