Cast Adrift. T. S. Arthur

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СКАЧАТЬ 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 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

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