Preface, 11

CHAPTER I. The Friendless Beggar, 23

CHAPTER II. New Adventures, 37

CHAPTER III. Suspected Quarters, 45

CHAPTER IV. The Infected District, 52

CHAPTER V. A Notorious Den and Change of Scene, 61

CHAPTER VI. Something of Mystery, 71

CHAPTER VII. The Mystery Solved, 80

CHAPTER VIII. The Knight and the Surgeon, 88

CHAPTER IX. The Burglary and Abduction, 103

CHAPTER X. The Deacon and the Burglar, 117

CHAPTER XI. The Escape, 126

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CHAPTER XII. Strange Quarters, 139

CHAPTER XIII. A Den of Infamy, 151

CHAPTER XIV. The Recapture, 165

CHAPTER XV. A Meeting of Old Friends, 175

CHAPTER XVI. Suspicion in the Right Quarter, 184

CHAPTER XVII. The Price of Blood, 193

CHAPTER XVIII. A Guilty Conscience, 205

CHAPTER XIX. The Suicide, 215

CHAPTER XX. The Arrest, 226

CHAPTER XXI. The Commitment, 238

CHAPTER XXII. Retribution, 251

CHAPTER XXIII. Death in Life, 261

CHAPTER XXIV. The Lovers, 271

CHAPTER XXV. Gleams of Light, 282

CHAPTER XXVI. Beginning of the End, 293

CHAPTER XXVII. The Curtain Falls, 304