Pleasure Before Business--Result of That Method--On Financial Rocks--James, Otherwise "Jimmy," Irving--He Was a Model Chief of Detectives--Police Headquarters, 300 Mulberry Street, in the Early Seventies--He Takes Me for a Drive out Harlem Lane--A Trio of Detectives--They Make a Startling Proposition--A $10,000 Temptation--Mental Conflicts--I Dare Not Be Poor--C'est le Premier Pas Qui Coute. 28 CHAPTER IV. History of the Famous Lord Bond Steal--"On the Office"--Three Sneaks Stumble on a Fortune--A $1,250,000 Tin Box--Dazed Crooks--What to Do with Their White Elephant--Excitement at Police Headquarters--Bullard et al.--A Violin Virtuoso--Superintendent of Police Kelso Presents a $500 Silver Punch Bowl to the Daughter of Boss Tweed--Paid for with Stolen Cash. 36 CHAPTER V. Police Protectors--New York Gangs--Irving & Co. Give Me $80,000 Lord Bonds to Sell Abroad--A Midnight Farewell--Alone on the Sea--When Jim Fisk Owned Our Judges--Chief Irving Plans a Famous Bank Robbery--His Three Burglar Confederates. 48 CHAPTER VI. The Bank Looted--Irving Notified by Bank Officials--His Feigned Surprise--Hunts the Burglars, but Divides the Plunder at His Own House--Count Shinburne and His Palace on the Rhine--Twenty Years Later. 58 CHAPTER VII. I Arrive in Paris--Field of Waterloo--Meet the Antwerp Chief of Police--He Is on Trail--A Dutch Van Tromp and the Countess Winzerode--His Dream of Bliss and Tragic Death--My Negotiations in Frankfurt-on-the-Main. 65 CHAPTER VIII. Marpurgo & Weisweller, Bankers--Francoise Blanc, the Gambler King--His Casinos at Monte Carlo, Homburg and Wiesbaden--I Meet Van Tromp's Countess--Outlived Her Beauty--Now a Hanger-on at the Rouge et Noir Tables--Takes My Advice--Marries a Rich Burgher--Becomes a Good Stepmother--Her Pious End and Epitaph. 73 CHAPTER IX. I Sell the $80,000 Bonds--Reach London Safely--Drifting--Success in Crime a Failure--A Desolate Woman--Beautiful Barmaid Show--Westminster Abbey--Good Resolutions--Sail Home--Irving at the Wharf--Meet at Taylor's Hotel--The Total: "I Have Another Job for You"--A Fool's Game. 84 CHAPTER X. Edwin James, Q.C., and a Possible Lord Chancellor of England--His Extravagance--On the Border Land of Crime--He Oversteps--Disbarred--Comes to New York--Richard O'Gorman's Great Heart--The Brea Will Case--A Dark Plot--$20,000 out of Wall Street--Jay Cooke & Co. Narrowly Escape Loss of $240,000--Chief Irving in the Plot--Detective George Elder Not in Our Ring--Accidentally He Appears and Thwarts Our Plans. 94 CHAPTER XI.