Bob Shank--The Fire--The Cave.

XIII. Bell hates the Rain, but finally has no Objection to it--Miss
Blackwood's Party.

XIV. Various Things material both to the Story and the Reader--The
Catfish Railroad Scheme.

XV. Ahead--Back again.

XVI. Who is Uncle Sam--Syracuse--Camillus--Junction--Auburn--A New
York Lawyer obtains a Case (a hard one).

XVII. The Dinner Party at Aurora--The Telegram--Mrs. Tryon's Glance.

XVIII. Broadway, New York--James Mordaunt, Esq., at his Office in Wall
street--Is he a Married Man?

XIX. Rev. John Furnace--The Funeral--The Lawsuit--The Catfish Railroad
Stock at a Premium.

XX. Arrival of the Liverpool Steamer--New York Firemen--Griswold's
Heroism--The Catfish Railroad Stock falling--Trouble.

XXI. Short but Interesting.

XXII. A Sail on Cayuga Lake before Breakfast--Thermometer thirty
Degrees below Zero--Two Miles a Minute under a fair Wind--Bell
Mortimer takes an Observation--The Surprise not a Surprise--The
Race Home--The Ice-Boat too much for the Horses--The Runaway--The
Rescue,--Love told without Words--Death cheated, of his Prey.

XXIII. Plans for the Future.

XXIV. Commencement Day at Hamilton College--William Hastings--How a
Clerk in New York City may obtain a Partnership.

XXV. A Friend in Need.

XXVI. New York City Corporation Counsel--All Marriage Notices not
Agreeable.

XXVII. Sarah E. Graham's call at Mordaunt's Law Office--A Cool
Scene--James Mordaunt in trouble.

XXVIII. George Melville under a Cloud.

XXIX. The Metropolis of America never sleeps--Scene in Twenty-Third
street late at Night.

XXX. An Arrest--A Promise made, and a Promise given.

XXXI. A Station on the N.Y. Central Railroad--Car
Manufactory--Reception of a Convict at the Auburn State Prison--The
Model Prison of the United States.

XXXII. More about the Prison.

XXXIII. James Mordaunt, Esq., triumphs.

XXXIV. Mr. M----l, Chief of the New York Police, puts his Private Seal
upon a Coffin in Greenwood Cemetery.

XXXV. A Council of War.

XXXVI. A Smash-up in Broadway, N.Y.--The New York Hospital--The New
York Press--Sarah E. Graham a Lunatic.

XXXVII. Bell and Charger.

XXXVIII. An Ante-Breakfast Ride--The Homestead of an American
Statesman.

XXXIX. Fort-Hill Cemetery--"Who is there to Mourn for Logan?"--How to
carry on a Correspondence with a Convict--Distant View of the Auburn
State Prison--Bell Mortimer in her Sanctum.

XL. A Change in the progress of Events foreshadowed--Ex