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.]