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    forced to put the child in the hands of a friend she trusted, who
    promised to care for it, and advanced money for the sick woman.
    When the mother got better she worked two years and saved until
    she had enough money to buy the child back, but the cruel woman
    who had got possession of it refused to give it up unless paid
    three times as much as was originally borrowed. The mother could
    not do this, and finally, hearing of the Mission, reported the
    case there. The baby was traced to a horrible den in Church alley,
    where it was in the possession of a notorious brothel-keeper. The
    mother secretly visited the Matron at the Mission, who had secured
    the child, urging her to keep possession of the baby, saying she
    would not dare testify against the woman on the witness stand, as
    it would cost her her life. The case was a long time in court, but
    after six months the Judge committed the child to the Home, and
    the mother was made very happy.

    No. 6. She ran into the Mission leading her little son. She was
    chased to the very door of the Mission, but kept her pursuers
    at bay, by means of a policeman's whistle which she held in her
    mouth, walking backward and threatening to blow it if they dared
    touch her child. She was a widow with this only child, and her
    relatives were bound to sell her into an immoral life and take the
    boy away. After being in the Mission a few months she became a
    Christian. Her little boy was placed in an orphanage. Later the
    widow married respectably.

    No. 7. This girl was aged 14 when rescued, and had been placed in
    a vile life four weeks before. Two days later she was taken to
    court on a writ of habeas corpus. Her case wa