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Austin Bidwell. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
HAD THERE BEEN WISDOM THERE?
CHAPTER II
"'TWAS EVER THUS." OF COURSE IT WAS
CHAPTER III
A LICENSED PIRATE
CHAPTER IV
FOOLS STUMBLING ON FORTUNES
TO CATHERINE TWEED
JAMES KELSO,
CHAPTER V
WHEN BOSS TWEED WAS NEW YORK'S OWNER AND JIM FISK, PROPRIETOR OF OUR JUDGES
CHAPTER VI
CHEATED VISIONS AND VANISHED HOPES
CHAPTER VII
GILDED SIRS WHO ARE NOT WISE
CHAPTER VIII
THE MERRY SUMMER OVER AND NO HARVEST STORED
TO ELIZABETH, The Beloved Wife, Pious and True. She Served God and Has Gone to Live with the Angels
CHAPTER IX
"WE HAVE ANOTHER JOB FOR YOU."
CHAPTER X
A NINETEENTH CENTURY PRODIGAL
CHAPTER XI
"CRACK THE LAWYER'S VOICE THAT HE MAY NEVER MORE FALSE TITLES PLEAD, NOR SOUND HIS QUILLETS SHRILLY."
CHAPTER XII
RESTEZ ICI, MES ENFANTS
CHAPTER XIII
WE TALK OF THE STARS AND DO THE OTHER THING
CHAPTER XIV
I PLAY THE SILVER KING
CHAPTER XV
PIRATICAL CRUISE IN TROPICAL SEAS
CHAPTER XVI
"SHOW ME YOUR LETTERS OF CREDIT."
CHAPTER XVII
ONCE MORE WE SAIL THE SEAS OVER
CHAPTER XVIII
LITTLE FISHES WRIGGLING THROUGH GREEN WAVES
CHAPTER XIX
WITH NO REGRETS, WITH NO TORTURING REMORSE
CHAPTER XX
DETAILS NECESSARY, IF TEDIOUS
CHAPTER XXI
THE EGYPTIANS PASS OVER THE RED SEA AND THE HEBREWS ARE DROWNED THEREIN
CHAPTER XXII
"ACCEPTED. LIONEL ROTHSCHILD."
CHAPTER XXIII
SHOWERS OF GOLD FALL—AND THEN?
CHAPTER XXIV
POINTS FOR JUSTICE TO PICK UP
CHAPTER XXV
THE IRONY OF FATE
CHAPTER XXVI
"EXCUSE ME, SIR, FOR QUESTIONING YOU."
CHAPTER XXVII
THE FLOWERS IN THE PRIMROSE WAY ARE SWEET
CHAPTER XXVIII
FEAR SAYS "NO" TO HAPPINESS
CHAPTER XXIX
I WATCH THE PYRENEES SINK IN THE SEA, THEN SAIL O'ER GREEN NEPTUNE'S BACK
CHAPTER XXX
"HAPPINESS AND I SHAKE HANDS FOR A TIME."
AMAZING FRAUD UPON THE BANK OF ENGLAND!
MILLIONS LOST!
GREAT EXCITEMENT IN LONDON!
£5,000 REWARD FOR THE ARREST OF THE AMERICAN PERPETRATOR, F. A. WARREN
CHAPTER XXXI
THE PHILISTINES ARE UPON THEE, SAMSON
"CUBAN AFFAIRS—BIDWELL'S IMPRISONMENT
CHAPTER XXXII
NIGHTLY IN MY DUNGEON THE MAGICIAN MEMORY WOULD UNROLL THAT SCENE
CHAPTER XXXIII
SHARKS, SALT WATER ONES, AND OTHER THINGS
CHAPTER XXXIV
ONE LOVELY JUNE MORNING INTO PLYMOUTH HARBOR WE SAIL
CHAPTER XXXV
RUNNING THE GAUNTLET
THE BANK FORGERIES
CHAPTER XXXVI
"NOTHING LEFT US BUT A GRAVE, THAT SMALL MODEL OF THE BARREN EARTH," WITH DISHONOR FOR AN EPITAPH
CHAPTER XXXVII
HENCEFORTH A LIGHT WAS TO STREAM THROUGH THE FLUTED GLASS OF MY WINDOW
CHAPTER XXXVIII
WHAT, THESE TEDIOUS DETAILS AGAIN
CHAPTER XXXIX
THE DAYS O' SUMMER MERRILY SPENT IN THE LAND OF THE HEATHER
CHAPTER XL
WE WILL FERRY YOU OVER JORDAN THAT ROLLS BETWEEN
CHAPTER XLI
CHAPTER XLII
MANY A MAN MORE DANGEROUS WRITES ALDERMAN AFTER HIS NAME
CHAPTER XLIII
A BATTERED HULK STRANDED ON A SHORE TO WHICH NO TIDE RETURNS
CHAPTER XLIV
I FIND THE FENIANS WITH ME IN THE TOILS
CHAPTER XLV
IN MOOD AS LONELY, IN PLIGHT AS DESPERATE AS HIS
CHAPTER XLVI
IF PAIN IS NOT AN EVIL, IT CERTAINLY IS A VERY GOOD IMITATION
CHAPTER XLVII
HIS ROW BECOMES FILLED WITH VERY SHARP-EDGED STONES INDEED
CHAPTER XLVIII
HE TELEGRAPHED THE NEWS TO MY WARDER, AND BARTON WENT ON HIS WAY REJOICING
CHAPTER XLIX
I FLUSTER THE GREAT JUPITER OF MY LITTLE WORLD
"AUSTIN BIDWELL."
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CHAPTER L
IT WAS NIGHT; SILENCE AND GLOOM HAD SETTLED DOWN ON THE INMATES
