Cast Adrift. T. S. Arthur

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      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

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