430

CHAPTER XLII.

A Gettysburg Veteran--In the Wethersfield, Ct., State Prison--Makes
and Conceals a Set of Burglar's Tools--Liberated--Returns
and Burglarizes the Prison--Boat Load of Plunder--Captured--Sixteen
Years More in Prison--Then Goes to England--Gets
Twenty Years--Joins Me at Chatham. 436

CHAPTER XLIII.

The Fenians at Chatham--Dr. Gallagher--McCarty, O'Brien and
Others--We Become Friends--Excavating the Chatham Ship
Basin--Starvation and Despair--Self-Mutilation of an Arm or
Leg to Reach the Hospital--Release and Death of McCarty--Gallagher
Breaks Down--Speedy Release or Death for Him. 443

CHAPTER XLIV.

Fenian Prisoners in English Prisons--McCarthy, O'Brien--A Plan
Miscarried--In the Tolls--Severe Punishments--Curtin, Daly,
Egan--Poor Dr. Gallagher. 447

CHAPTER XLV.

A Dictionary and Life of the Prophet Jeremiah vs. a Shakespeare--Prison
Hospital Proves a Paradise--Nature's Compensations--Reality
Not So Terrible as Imagined--Human Nature Unchangeable. 453

CHAPTER XLVI.

Public Opinion Within Says the Same as Outside--A Sensible Fellow--Pluck
Wins--Roses Scarce, Thorns Plenty--Woe to Mutineers
for "More Bread"--Sentiment Banished--Resistance
Crushed--English Judges Are Autocrats--No Appeal. 459

CHAPTER XLVII.

Hard Lines--A Boaster--A Veneered Flunkey--Billy Treacle's Aunt
Dies Again--Frederic Barton and His Vain Petitions--I Give
Him a Pointer--His Inherited Fortune Fake--Surreptitious Mail
Route--Warders as Letter Carriers. 463

CHAPTER XLVIII.

Sixteen-Thousand-Acre Tea Plantation in India and Sixty Thousand
Pounds Imaginary Inheritance--Barton Becomes a Great
Man--The Plot Thickens--Letters from London--Smith Discharged--Petition
for Barton--Smith Presents It at Home Office--Home
Secretary Swallows the Bait--Barton's Triumphant
Release--His Imaginary Fortune Does Not Materialize. 466

CHAPTER XLIX.

Tantalizing the Home Secretary--Refused a Letter Sheet--Petition
the Home Office for One--Sarcasm About Barton's Release on
My Sub-Rosa Petition--Good Conduct Fails--Feigned Wealth
Wins Freedom for Barton--Apropos Quotation from Goethe--Sir
Vernon Harcourt and His Opinion--I Tread Dangerous
Ground.