One of the women, an unmarried girl, who had been coming day after day when she ought not to have come, crept away at last into a dark passage and gave birth to a baby boy; and not knowing what to do with him, and in terror of losing her place, she crept up to the floor above and dropped him into one of the carts full of beef, that was all ready for the cooking-vats. It was by the merest chance that some one heard the baby cry, just as the cart was in the act of being dumped. They took this woman to the hospital—what became of her after that no one ever knew.
