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 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.