AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
PROEM.
CHAPTER I. A Girl Perplexed
CHAPTER II. The Cause Revealed but not Removed
CHAPTER III. Other Actors
CHAPTER IV. A Lady who did not know that she was a Lady
CHAPTER V. What a Kiss Did
CHAPTER VI. Up to Date Aristocracy in a Negro Church
CHAPTER VII. Rev. Josiah Nerve, D. D. S.
CHAPTER VIII. He Narrowly Escapes
CHAPTER IX. The Pit is Dug
CHAPTER X. The Victims
CHAPTER XI. Murder
CHAPTER XII. The Visit of a Policeman
CHAPTER XIII. Backward, then Forward
CHAPTER XIV. As Least Expected
CHAPTER XV. An Awful Resolve
CHAPTER XVI. A Political Trick
CHAPTER XVII. Paving the Way
CHAPTER XVIII. John Wysong Confesses
CHAPTER XIX. Added Sorrows
CHAPTER XX. Speaker Lanier
CHAPTER XXI. The Hanging
CHAPTER XXII. Worse than Death
CHAPTER XXIII. Full of Joy
CHAPTER XXIV. Opposing the Wedding
CHAPTER XXV. Erma and an Assassin
CHAPTER XXVI. Name the Chapter After you Read It
CHAPTER XXVII. The Funeral
EPILOGUE.