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Besides , I had paid her well , when I discharged her , to say nothing to you , and to keep the baby until I should come for it . They needed money ; they were poor . `` I was determined that it should never be heard of again . It was about noon when I left Galesburg . I drove all that afternoon , with the baby in a basket on the seat of the carriage beside me . Everybody has read in books , since books were first written -- and seen in newspapers , too -- about children being left on door steps . Given an infant to dispose of , that is perhaps the first thing that occurs to a person .