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

       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