es--The K. K. K. Movement as an Offset to
the League 18

CHAPTER III.

THE KLAN.

A Stirring Episode--Raising the Dead--Night-Hawk Abroad--Moving
toward the Rendezvous--Grand Cyclops of Den No. 5--Forming the
Magic Circle--K. K. K. Drill--On the March--The _Tout Ensemble_
of a Raiding Body--Weird Costuming--Banners Inscribed with the
K. K. K. Escutcheon--How the Scene Impressed Beholders 29

CHAPTER IV.

SUPERSTITIONS REGARDING K. K. K.

Impressions after a K. K. K. Raid--Will Morning never come?--
Conjectures Regarding the Subject in the Minds of those who
should have been Prepared to Render an Opinion--What
Superstitious People thought--The Mill Council--K. K. K.
Arraigned on various Charges, and Acquitted for Want of
Testimony--The Subject an Enigma--Man a Superstitious Animal 38

CHAPTER V.

K. K. K. DEALINGS WITH THE LOYAL LEAGUE.

A Train which brought Welcome Passenger--Caucusing in the Open
Air a Dangerous Proceeding--Correct Surmises--An Old Church,
Bequeathed from Generation to Generation, and Liable to many
Uses--Brothers and Sisters all--The L. L. in full Bloom--Storm
succeeded by a Calm--Weird Visitors--What they left behind them--
Sudden Panic--The Rally--Still in Doubt--The Chairman's
Stratagem--How it didn't Work--Despondent Leaguers taught to Act
for Themselves. 49

CHAPTER VI.

GHOST FEATURE OF THE MOVEMENT. ITS PHILOSOPHY.

Contrasted Views of the Organization inspired by its Dealings
with the Public--The Colored Man in the South--Kindly Feeling
for the Race cherished by Native Southerners--Households Presided
over by Colored Matrons--Superstitious Tendencies of Cuffey--His
Ideas about "Ghosts," and the Realm which they Inhabit--Spook
Kinsfolk--The ideal "Uncle Tom's Cabin"--Wherein it was a
Failure--The "Infantile Sex" and their Greed for Ghost-lore--
Painful Reminiscences--Use to which the Aged Patriarch, or Beldam,
as the Case might be, put their Prerogative--Talent for relating
Ghost Stories--The Young White Men of the South trained up in
this School 61

CHAPTER VII.

DETAILS OF ORGANIZATIONS.

A Band of Regulators whose Force at this time numbered a Half
Million well-organized and perfectly