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T. S. Arthur
Cast Adrift
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066234478
Table of Contents
DETAILED CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. The unwelcome babe—The defrauded young mother—The struggle
between life and death—“Your baby is in heaven”—A brief retrospect—A
marriage for social position—An ambitious wife and a disappointed
husband—The young daughter—The matrimonial market—The Circassian
slaves of modern society—The highest bidder—Disappearance—The old sad
story—Secret marriage—The letters—Disappointed ambition—Interview
between the parents—The mother's purpose—“Baffled, but not
defeated”—The father's surprise—The returned daughter—Forgiven—“I am
not going away again, father dear”—Insecurity and distrust
CHAPTER II. The hatred of a bad woman—Mrs. Dinneford's plans for the
destruction of Granger—Starting in business—Plots of Mrs. Dinneford
and Freeling—The discounted notes—The trap—Granger's suspicions
aroused—Forgery—Mrs. Dinneford relentless—The arrest—Fresh evidence
of crime upon Granger's person—The shock to Edith—“That night her baby
was born”
CHAPTER III. “It is a splendid boy”—A convenient, non-interfering
family doctor—Cast adrift—Into the world in a basket, unnamed
and disowned—Edith's second 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