CONTENTS

[Part I]: The Awakening and Its Toll
Chapter Page
I.The Call of Homestead[1]
II.The Seat of War[23]
III.The Spirit of Pittsburgh[28]
IV.The Attentat[33]
V.The Third Degree[36]
VI.The Jail[44]
VII.The Trial[89]
[Part II]: The Penitentiary
I.Desperate Thoughts[95]
II.The Will to Live[113]
III.Spectral Silence[120]
IV.A Ray of Light[124]
V.The Shop[128]
VI.My First Letter[136]
VII.Wingie[140]
VIII.To the Girl[148]
IX.Persecution[152]
X.The Yegg[159]
XI.The Route Sub Rosa[174]
XII."Zuchthausbluethen"[176]
XIII.The Judas[185]
XIV.The Dip[195]
XV.The Urge of Sex[201]
XVI.The Warden's Threat[209]
XVII.The "Basket" Cell[219]
XVIII.The Solitary[221]
XIX.Memory-Guests[232]
XX.A Day in the Cell-House[240]
XXI.The Deeds of the Good to the Evil[264]
XXII.The Grist of the Prison-Mill[270]
XXIII.The Scales of Justice[287]
XXIV.Thoughts that Stole Out of Prison[297]
XXV.How Shall the Depths Cry?[300]
XXVI.Hiding the Evidence[307]
XXVII.Love's Dungeon Flower[316]
XXVIII.For Safety[328]
XXIX.Dreams of Freedom[330]
XXX.Whitewashed Again[337]
XXXI."And by All Forgot, We Rot and Rot"[342]
XXXII.The Deviousness of Reform Law Applied[352]
XXXIII.The Tunnel[355]
XXXIV.The Death of Dick[363]
XXXV.An Alliance With the Birds[364]
XXXVI.The Underground[375]
XXXVII.Anxious Days[382]
XXXVIII."How Men Their Brothers Maim"[389]
XXXIX.A New Plan of Escape[395]
XL.Done to Death[401]
XLI.The Shock at Buffalo[409]
XLII.Marred Lives[418]
XLIII."Passing the Love of Woman"[430]
XLIV.Love's Daring[441]
XLV.The Bloom of "The Barren Staff"[446]
XLVI.A Child's Heart-Hunger[453]
XLVII.Chum[458]
XLVIII.Last Days[465]
[Part III]
The Workhouse[473]
[Part IV]
The Resurrection[483]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Alexander Berkman (Frontispiece)]
[The Author at the Time of the Homestead Strike]
[Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania]
[Facsimile of Prison Letter]
["Zuchthausbluethen"]
[Cell Ranges]
[The Tunnel]

PART I

THE AWAKENING AND ITS TOLL