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