ollars by sundown--No way of escape except through police
interference--"People who deal with the devil generally have the devil
to pay"--Suspicion--A mistake--Sound of feet upon the stairs--Mrs.
Dinneford again in hiding--Enter Pinky Swett--Pinky disposed of--Mrs.
Dinneford again released--Mrs. Bray's strategy--"Let us be friends
still, Mrs. Bray"--Mrs. Dinneford's deprecation and humiliation--Mrs.
Bray's triumph

CHAPTER VIII. Mrs. Bray receives a package containing two hundred
dollars--"Poor baby! I must see better to its comfort"--Pinky meets a
young girl from the country--The "Ladies' Restaurant"--Fried oysters
and sangaree--The "bindery" girl--"My head feels strangely"--Through
the back alley--The ten-cent lodging house--Robbery--A second robbery--A
veil drawn--A wild prolonged cry of a woman--The policeman listens only
for a moment, and then passes on--Foul play--"In all our large
cities are savages more cruel and brutal in their instincts than the
Comanches"--Who is responsible?

CHAPTER IX. Valuation of the spoils--The receiver--The "policy-shop" and
its customers--A victim of the lottery mania

CHAPTER X. "Policy-drunkards"--A newly-appointed policeman's
blunder--The end of a "policy-drunkard"--Pinky 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. Dinn