and a Night Scene on the
Hudson-River Road--Why Joe Harris hid her Saucy Face--Oneida
Scenery--Aunt Betsey, Little Susy, and a Peep at the Halstead
Homestead, with Pigs, Chickens and Cherries 332

CHAPTER XXIII.

Josephine Harris in quest of Information--The Big House on the
Hill--Extracting the Secrets of the Crawford Family--How a Big
Fib may sometimes be told for a Good Purpose--Aunt Betsey made an
Accomplice--Mary Crawford, the Country Girl, and a Terrible
Revelation--A Bold Letter to a Bold Man 350

CHAPTER XXIV.

The Piazza of the Big House on the Hill--John Crawford the Human
Wreck, and Egbert Crawford on the Eve of Marriage--Chanticleer on
the Garden Fence, with Remembrances of Peter and Judas Iscariot--John
Crawford instructs his Expectant Son-in-law--Arrival of the Domestic
Post, with a Letter of Import--A Hit or a Miss?--Strida la Vampa 372

CHAPTER XXV.

Affairs in the Crawford Family in New York--The Two Brothers
together--Marion Hobart the Enigma--How Richard Crawford thought
that he was not able to ride to the Central Park, and found that
he could ride to Niagara 391

CHAPTER XXVI.

Tom Leslie at Niagara--A Dash at Scenery there--What he saw with
his Natural Eyes, and what with his Inner Consciousness--The
Wreck and the Rainbow--Another Rencontre with Dexter Ralston--The
Eclipse on the Falls--Leslie under the impression that he can be
discounted, and that he knows little or nothing on any subject 404

CHAPTER XXVII.

Society and Shoulder-Straps at the Falls--The Delights and Duties
of a Journalist--Leslie and Harding Exploring Canada--How one
Fine Morning War was declared between England and the United
States, and Canada annexed to New York--A Meeting at the
Cataract--Another Rencontre with the Strange Virginian--An
Abduction and a Pursuit 420

CHAPTER XXVIII.

The Sequel at West Falls--How Colonel Egbert Crawford was
supposed to have been telegraphed for from Albany--Mary Crawford
once more at the Halstead's--The Final Instructions and Promises
of the Chief Conspirator--Joe Harris returns to the Great City,
and her Disappointment therein--Another Conspiracy hatched,
threatening to blow Judge Owen's Domestic Tranquillity to Atoms 433

CHAPTER XXIX.

Some Speculations on Moonlight and Insanity--Cap