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 a friend CHAPTER XIX.

Mr.Dinneford visits the mission-school--A comparison of the present with the past--The first mission-school--Reminiscences of the school in its early days--The zealous scholar--Good effects of the mission--"Get the burning brands apart, or interpose incombustible things between them"-- An illustration--"Let in light, and the darkness flees" CHAPTER XX.

"The man awoke and felt the child against his bosom, soft and warm"-- Led by a little child--"God being my helper, I will be a man again"-- A new life--Meeting of an old friend--A friend in need--Food, clothes, work--A new home--God's strength our only safety CHAPTER XXI.

Intimate relations of physical and moral purity--Blind Jake--The harvest of the thieves and beggars--Inconsiderate charity--Beggary a vice--"The deserving poor are never common beggars"-- "To help the evil is to hurt the good" The malignant ulcer in the body politic of our city--The breeding-places of epidemics and malignant diseases--Little Italian street musicians--The existence of slavery in our midst--Facts in regard to it CHAPTER XXII.

Edith's continued interest in the children of the poor--Christmas dinner at the mission-house--Edith perceives Andy, and feels a strange attraction toward him--Andy's disappearance after dinner--Pinky Swett has been seen dragging him away--Lost sight of CHAPTER XXIII.