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 dollars 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. 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