36

CHAPTER V.

Police Protectors--New York Gangs--Irving & Co. Give Me $80,000
Lord Bonds to Sell Abroad--A Midnight Farewell--Alone on
the Sea--When Jim Fisk Owned Our Judges--Chief Irving
Plans a Famous Bank Robbery--His Three Burglar Confederates. 48

CHAPTER VI.

The Bank Looted--Irving Notified by Bank Officials--His Feigned
Surprise--Hunts the Burglars, but Divides the Plunder at His
Own House--Count Shinburne and His Palace on the Rhine--Twenty
Years Later. 58

CHAPTER VII.

I Arrive in Paris--Field of Waterloo--Meet the Antwerp Chief of
Police--He Is on Trail--A Dutch Van Tromp and the Countess
Winzerode--His Dream of Bliss and Tragic Death--My Negotiations
in Frankfurt-on-the-Main. 65

CHAPTER VIII.

Marpurgo & Weisweller, Bankers--Francoise Blanc, the Gambler
King--His Casinos at Monte Carlo, Homburg and Wiesbaden--I
Meet Van Tromp's Countess--Outlived Her Beauty--Now a
Hanger-on at the Rouge et Noir Tables--Takes My Advice--Marries
a Rich Burgher--Becomes a Good Stepmother--Her
Pious End and Epitaph. 73

CHAPTER IX.

I Sell the $80,000 Bonds--Reach London Safely--Drifting--Success
in Crime a Failure--A Desolate Woman--Beautiful Barmaid
Show--Westminster Abbey--Good Resolutions--Sail Home--Irving
at the Wharf--Meet at Taylor's Hotel--The Total: "I
Have Another Job for You"--A Fool's Game. 84

CHAPTER X.

Edwin James, Q.C., and a Possible Lord Chancellor of England--His
Extravagance--On the Border Land of Crime--He Oversteps--Disbarred--Comes
to New York--Richard O'Gorman's
Great Heart--The Brea Will Case--A Dark Plot--$20,000 out of
Wall Street--Jay Cooke & Co. Narrowly Escape Loss of $240,000--Chief
Irving in the Plot--Detective George Elder Not in Our
Ring--Accidentally He Appears and Thwarts Our Plans. 94

CHAPTER XI.

Eastward Ho!--The James and Brea Exit--Ezra, the Shrewd Lawyer--Three
Unhappy Daughters--He Marries One--Detects
Forged Will--Flight of Brea to Montana--A Sunrise Surprise
at Butte City--James Returns to London--Fills a Pauper's
Grave Instead of a Lord Chancellor's. 114

CHAPTER XII.

Bordeaux, Marseilles and Lyons "Donate" $50,000--A Bad Q