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.