CHAPTER XVI. Mr. Dinneford's return, and Edith's disappointment--“It is somebody's baby, and it may be mine”--An unsuspected listener--Mrs. Dinneford acts promptly--Conference between Mrs. Dinneford and Mrs. Hoyt, _alias_ Bray--The child must be got out of the way--“If it will not starve, it must drown”--Mrs. Dinneford sees an acquaintance as she leaves Mrs. Hoyt's, and endeavors to escape his observation--A new danger and disgrace awaiting her CHAPTER XVII. Mental conditions of mother and daughter--Mr. Dinneford aroused to a sense of his moral responsibilities--The heathen in our midst--The united evil of policy-lotteries and whisky-shops--The education of the policy-shops CHAPTER XVIII. 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. Christmas dinner at Mr. Dinneford's--The dropped letter--It is missed--A scene of wild excitement--Mrs. Dinneford's sudden death--Edith reads the letter--A revelation--“Innocent!”--Edith is called to her mother--“Dead, and better so!”--Granger's innocence established--An agony of affection--No longer Granger's wife