tal--Married--Sold out--In
the grocery business--Collapsed--Running a billiard hall--Collapsed
again--Newspaper reporter for a mysterious murder.

CHAPTER XII.

More help from Mr. Keefer--Six weeks as a horse-trainer--A mysterious
partner--Collapsed--How I made a raise--Home again--Father to a bouncing
boy.

CHAPTER XIII.

Engaged in the Patent-right business--My trade with Brother Long--The
compromise--My second trade with a deacon--His Sunday honesty and
week-day economy--A new partner--The landlord and his cream
biscuits--How we headed him off--A trade for a balky horse--How we
persuaded him to go--Our final settlement with the landlord.

CHAPTER XIV.

Our trip through Indiana--How I fooled a telegraph operator--The old
landlord sends recipe for cream biscuit--Our return to Ohio--Becoming
agents for a new patent--Our valise stolen--Return to Ft. Wayne--Waiting
six weeks for Patent-right papers--Busted--Staving off the washerwoman
for five weeks--"The Kid" and 'de exchange act'--How the laundry woman
got even with us--The landlord on the borrow--How we borrowed of
him--Replenishing our wardrobe--Paying up the hotel bill.

CHAPTER XV.

Our visit to La Grange, Ind.--Traded for a horse--Followed by an
officer, with a writ of replevin--Putting him on the wrong scent--His
return to the hotel--The horse captured--Broke again--How I made a
raise.

CHAPTER XVI.

Arriving at Elmore, Ohio, stranded--Receiving eight dollars on a Patent
right sale--Dunned in advance by the landlord--Changing hotels--My visit
to Fremont--Meeting Mr. Keefer and borrowing money--Our visit to
Findlay--A big deal--Losing money in wheat--Followed by officers with a
writ of replevin--Outwitting them--A four-mile chase--Hiding our rig in
a cellar.

CHAPTER XVII.

Visiting my family at Elmore--How we fooled a detective--A friend in
need--Arriving at Swanton, Ohio, broke--How I made a raise--Disguising
my horse with a coat of paint--Captured at Toledo--Selling my
horse--Arrived home broke.

CHAPTER XVIII.

Mr. Keefer called from home--My mother refuses me a loan--Peddling
furniture polish on foot--Having my fortune told--My trip through
Michigan--Arrested for selling without license--"It never rains but it
pours"--Collapsed--A good moral--Making a raise.

CHAPTER XIX.

My co-partnership with a Clairvoyant doctor--Our lively trip from
Ypsilanti to Pontiac, Michigan--Poor success--The doctor and his Irish
patient--My