tors 34

CHAPTER VI.

MYSTERIOUS DISCLOSURES.

His Lawrenceburgh friends--A hypocritical lecture--Further
disclosures--A searching examination--First intimation of the existence
of The Secret Band of Brothers--Colonel Brown's narrative of the
conspiracy against Taylor 42

CHAPTER VII.

DISCLOSURES CONTINUED.

The colonel resumes his narrative--The missing papers.--Fare advice 57

CHAPTER VIII.

DEATH OF COLONEL BROWN.

Conspiracy against my life--Conversation with Cunningham regarding the
mysterious papers--Death of Colonel Brown 62

CHAPTER IX.

THE SECRET BAND OF BROTHERS.

Explanatory remarks--The Grand Master of The Secret Band of
Brothers--Vice-grand Masters--Ordinary members--Objects of the
Order--Colonel Brown sacrificed lest he should betray them--Taylorites
and Brownites 66

CHAPTER X.

THE MYSTERIOUS BOX.

Anxiety about the missing papers--Cause of the hostility of the Band to
me--The papers supposed to be deposited in the United States
Court--Clerk's office broken into, and the box containing Taylor's
indictment and the spurious money stolen--Suspected--Placed in prison
for safety--The robber discovered--My release--The mysterious box--The
stranger--Conversation with Wyatt--The box opened 75

CHAPTER XI.

THE PORK TRADE, OR DRIVING THE HOGS TO A WRONG MARKET.

The trading operations of the Band--Lectures at Lawrenceburgh--The
Browns and the hog-drover 84

CHAPTER XII.

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE SECRET BAND OF BROTHERS.

Initiation--Penalties--The Grand Masters--The secret writing--The six
qualities, Huska, Caugh, Naugh, Maugh, Haugh, Gaugh--Vocabulary of flash
words--The post-routes.--The horse-trade explained--Allowances--
Specimens of correspondence--The biter bit--A letter of introduction
with an important note--Subsequent inquiry into the case 90

CHAPTER XIII.

A CHAPTER OF AFFINITIES.

Thieves and thief-catchers--A family of five--Penitence and
Penitentiaries--The chain-driver and his gang--Lawyers' fees and
Lawyers' privileges--Our representatives 139

CHAPTER XIV.

GAMBLING EXPEDITION IN THE CHOCTAW NATION.

Character of the inhabitants on the Texas frontier in