se Up-town--A Mysterious House--Amateur Detectives under a
Door-step, and what they saw and heard. 63

CHAPTER V.

Who was the Red Woman?--Tom Leslie's Strange Story of Parisian
Life and Fortune-telling--The 20th of December, 1860--An Hour in
the Rue la Reynie Ogniard--The Vision of the White Mist--The
Secession of South Carolina seen across the Atlantic--Was the
Sorceress in America? 73

CHAPTER VI.

Colonel Egbert Crawford and Miss Bell Crawford--Miss Harris
entering upon the Spy-System--Some Dissertations thereon, as
practised in the Army and Elsewhere--What McDowell knew before
Bull Run--Colonel Crawford's Affectionate Care of his Sick
Cousin--Josephine Harris behind a Glass Door--What she overheard
about Cousin Mary and the Rich Uncle at West Falls--Colonel
Crawford trying his Hand at Doctoring--A Suspicious Bandage, and
what the Watcher thought of it 83

CHAPTER VII.

Introduction of the Contraband--What He Was and What He Is--Three
Months Earlier--Colonel Egbert Crawford in Thomas Street--Aunt
Synchy, the Obi Woman--How a Man who is only half evil can be
tempted to murder--The Black Paste of the Obi Poison 99

CHAPTER VIII.

Colonel John Boadley Bancker and Frank Wallace at Judge Owen's--A
Pouting Lover and a Satisfied Rival--The Philosophy of Male and
Female Jealousy--Frank Wallace doing the Insulting--A Bit of a
Row--A Smash-up in the Streets, and a True Test of Relative
Courage 115

CHAPTER IX.

The First Week of July--News of the Reverses before
Richmond--Painful Feeling of the Whole Country--How a Nation
weeps Tears of Blood--The Estimation of McClellan--The Curse of
Absenteeism--Public Abhorrence of the Shoulder-strapped Heroes on
Broadway--A Scene at the World Corner, and a Hero in Disguise 129

CHAPTER X.

Leslie and Harding following up the Prince-Street Mystery--A Call
upon Superintendent Kennedy--How Tom Leslie wished to play
Detective--A Bit of a Rebuff--A Massachusetts Regiment going to
the War--Miss Joe Harris and Bell Crawford in a Street Difficulty--A
Rescue and a Recognition--A Trip into Taylor's Saloon 142

CHAPTER XI.

The True Characters of Men and of Houses--Fifth Avenue and the
Swamp--Gilded Vice, and Vice without Ornament--T