CONTENTS

I. [BOYHOOD DAYS]

II. [FIRST STEPS IN CRIME]

III. [INTO THE DEPTHS]

IV. ["SAVED BY GRACE"]

V. [ON THE UP GRADE]

VI. [PROMOTED]

VII. [THE MISSION IN CHINATOWN]

VIII. [BOWERY WORK]

IX. [PRODIGAL SONS]

"Let me live in a house by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by.
Men that are good and men that are bad, as good and as bad as I.
I would not sit in the scorner's seat,
Nor hurl the cynic's ban.
Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man."