CAST ADRIFT.

BY T. S. ARTHUR

AUTHOR OF "THREE YEARS IN A MAN-TRAP," "ORANGE BLOSSOMS," ETC., ETC.

PHILADELPHIA:
CINCINNATI:
NEW YORK:
BOSTON:
CHICAGO, ILLS.:
NEW CASTLE, PA.:
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.:

1873






TO THE READER.

IN this romance of real life, in which the truth is stranger than
the fiction, I have lifted only in part the veil that hides the
victims of intemperance and other terrible vices--after they have
fallen to the lower deeps of degradation to be found in our large
cities, where the vile and degraded herd together more like wild
beasts than men and women--and told the story of sorrow, suffering,
crime and debasement as they really exist in Christian America with