the Captain--He
Dashes at Me with a Bayonet--Stopped by a Woman--Desperation. 355

CHAPTER XXXIV.

Back in Havana--Curtin's Story--Extradited--Spain Delivers Me
to England--Pinkertons Escort Me on Board Steamer--Arrival
at Plymouth--Newgate at Last--When Time is Old and
Hath Forgotten Himself. 372

CHAPTER XXXV.

Life in Newgate--Legal Sharks--A Pattern Solicitor--A Lame Defense
--Before Lord Mayor Waterlow--Trial at the Old Bailey--Thronging
Crowds--Days of Mental Torture--Jury Retires--Suspense--Guilty. 383

CHAPTER XXXVI.

A Modern Jeffreys--Penal Servitude for Life--End of the Primrose
Way--A Resolve--Will Fortune Ever Smile Again?--Newgate to
Chatham Prison--A Cocky Little Major--You Were Sent Here
to Work--In the Mud--Night and Silence. 387

CHAPTER XXXVII.

Events of the First Day--Hopeless Outlook--Lack of Mental and
Physical Food--A Shakespeare Won and Hope Dawns--In the
Infirmary--Effects of Prolonged Imprisonment. 401

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

Prison Management--Warders Under Military Discipline--Their
Long Hours and Small Pay--Their Character and Antecedents--English
Prison System Not Reformatory--Turns Out Murderers--Prison
Pets--Rats, Mice and Beetles. 404

CHAPTER XXXIX.

A Genius--Strange Story of Arthur Heep--Unwise Parents--Driven
from Home--Temptation and Fall--In a Lunatic Asylum--Escapes
Naked in a Storm--Clothes Secured from a Scarecrow--Rearrested--Serves
Five Years--To America and Return--Again
Behind the Bars. 417

CHAPTER XL.

English Prisons Schools for Crime--Two Prison Aid Societies--United
States Laws Evaded--Snug Berths for Reverend Barnacles--Contributions
Go for Salaries--No Benefit to ex-Prisoners--How
Discharged Prisoners Are Hustled to the United
States. 426

CHAPTER XLI.

Rev. Mr. Whiteley--How to Stop Influx of Foreign Criminals--Foster
an Example--Whiteley, Secretary of Aid Society, Sends
Foster to Sea--His Arrival in Chicago--Meets an Old Prison
Chum--Turns Detective--Chicago Justices--Foster's Story--Human
Tigers--A Plot and $20,000--A Letter and Diamond Pin--In
the Toils Again.