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The colonel takes medicine to bring on sickness—Ruse will not take—Character of the administrators of justice in New Orleans—Colonel Brown deserted by the Brotherhood—Dearborn county, Indiana, delegation 22

CHAPTER IV.

THE CONSPIRACY FURTHER DEVELOPED.

The secret correspondence brought from Canada—The Brotherhood desert Brown—How I obtained the secret writings—Not suspected—Mrs. Brown and the landlady—-Cunningham suspected of purloining them 27

CHAPTER V.

BRIBERY AND COUNTERFEIT MONEY.

Brown's lawyer attempts to bribe me to testify falsely against Taylor—Acquaint the deputy-marshal with the fact—Brown's ineffectual attempts to find bail—Suspected of having removed the hid money—The colonel's visitors 34

CHAPTER VI.

MYSTERIOUS DISCLOSURES.

His Lawrenceburgh friends—A hypocritical lecture—Further disclosures—A searching examination—First intimation of the existence of The Secret Band of Brothers—Colonel Brown's narrative of the conspiracy against Taylor 42

CHAPTER VII.

DISCLOSURES CONTINUED.

The colonel resumes his narrative—The missing papers.—Fare advice 57

CHAPTER VIII.

DEATH OF COLONEL BROWN.

Conspiracy against my life—Conversation with Cunningham regarding the mysterious papers—Death of Colonel Brown 62

CHAPTER IX.

THE SECRET BAND OF BROTHERS.

Explanatory remarks—The Grand Master of The Secret Band of Brothers—Vice-grand Masters—Ordinary members—Objects of the Order—Colonel Brown sacrificed lest he should betray them—Taylorites and Brownites 66

CHAPTER X.

THE MYSTERIOUS BOX.

Anxiety about the missing papers—Cause of the hostility of the Band to me—The papers supposed to be deposited in the United States Court—Clerk's office broken into, and the box containing Taylor's indictment and the spurious money stolen—Suspected—Placed in prison for safety—The robber discovered—My release—The mysterious box—The stranger—Conversation with Wyatt—The box opened 75

CHAPTER XI.

THE PORK TRADE, OR DRIVING THE HOGS TO A WRONG MARKET.

The trading operations of the Band—Lectures at Lawrenceburgh—The Browns and the hog-drover 84

CHAPTER XII.

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE SECRET BAND OF BROTHERS.

Initiation—Penalties—The Grand Masters—The secret writing—The six qualities, Huska, Caugh, Naugh, Maugh, Haugh, Gaugh—Vocabulary of flash words—The post-routes.—The horse-trade explained—Allowances— Specimens of correspondence—The biter bit—A letter of introduction with an important note—Subsequent inquiry into the case 90

CHAPTER XIII.

A CHAPTER OF AFFINITIES.

Thieves and thief-catchers—A family of five—Penitence and Penitentiaries—The chain-driver and his gang—Lawyers' fees and Lawyers' privileges—Our representatives 139

CHAPTER XIV.

GAMBLING EXPEDITION IN THE CHOCTAW NATION.

Character of the inhabitants on the Texas frontier in 1833—The murder of Dr ——. Operations at Fort Towson—Edmonds and Scoggins—Robbery— Journey to Fort Smith—The dumb negro speaks—His character of Scoggins and Edmonds public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@17917@[email protected]#Page_147" class="pginternal"