Cast Adrift by T. S. (Timothy Shay) 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 |
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