he Progress of
Temptation--The Legends of the Lurline and the Frozen Hand--Dangers
of Fashionable Restaurants--Scenes at Taylor's Saloon--Tom Leslie,
Joe Harris and Bell Crawford at Lunch--The Fortune-teller selected
by Miss Harris for a Visit--Wanted, a Knight for Two Distressed
Damsels--Tom Leslie enlists, and goes after his Armor 160

CHAPTER XII.

A Glance at Fortune-telling and other Delusions--Our Domestic and
Personal Superstitions--Omens and their Origin--The Witch of
Endor, Hamlet and Macbeth--One Strange Illustration of Prophecy
in Dreams--The Fortune-tellers of New York, Boston and Washington 172

CHAPTER XIII.

Ten Minutes at a Costumer's--Among the Robes of Queens and the
Rags of Beggars--How Tom Leslie suddenly grew to Sixty, and
changed Clothes accordingly--Josephine Harris and Bell Crawford
still at Lunch, with a Dissertation upon One Pair of Eyes--An
Unwarrantable Intrusion, and a Decided Sensation at Taylor's 187

CHAPTER XIV.

Necromancy in a Thunder-storm--How Tom Leslie and his Female
Companions called upon Madame Elise Boutell, from Paris, in
Prince Street--A New Way of Gambling for Precedence--Bell
Crawford takes her Turn--A very improper Joining of Hands in the
Outer Apartment--About Chances, Accidents and Little Things--The
Change in Bell Crawford's Eyes--Eyes that have looked within--Two
Pictures in the Old Dusseldorf Gallery--Joe Harris Undergoing the
Ordeal--A Thunder-clap and a Shriek of Terror--What Tom Leslie
saw in the Apartment of the Red Woman--A Mask removed, and one
more Temptation 198

CHAPTER XV.

Camp Lyon, and Colonel Egbert Crawford's Two Hundredth
Regiment--Recruiting Discipline in the Summer of 1862--What Smith
and Brown saw--Lager-beer, Cards and the Dice-box--An Adjutant
who obeys Orders--A Dress Parade a la mode--How Seven Hundred Men
may be squeezed into Three 218

CHAPTER XVI.

A Few Words on the Two Modern Modes of writing Romances--How to
tell what is not known and can never be known--The Bound of a
Loyal Pen--More of the Up-town Mystery--How the Reliable
Detectives posted a Watch, and how they kept it--Cold Water
dampening Enthusiasm--An Escape, and the Post mortem hold on a
Vacant House--Trails left by the Secession Serpent 232

CHAPTER XVII.

Pictures at the Seat of War--Looking for Jo