IN AN UGLY MOOD WITH MYSELF--A VISIT FROM A CINCINNATIAN--A LOSS DETAILED--THE FATE OF A BANKING HOUSE RESTING ON "COLLATERALS" STOLEN, WHICH MUST BE RECOVERED--A LAWYER FIGURES IN THE MATTER AND IS BAFFLED--THE THIEVES SPECULATING FOR A SETTLEMENT--THE SCHEME LAID FOR THEIR DETECTION--A BUSINESS VISIT TO THE BANKING-HOUSE--THE CHIEF CLERK SENT TO CHICAGO ON BUSINESS--A SEARCH REVEALING LOVE LETTERS AND A LOVELY LITERARY LADY--ON TRACK OF MYSTERIOUS "PAPERS"--THE FATAL SLIP OF PAPER--THE WAY THE STOLEN BONDS WERE RECOVERED--THE CHIEF CLERK, AND HOW HE WAS "ENLIGHTENED"--A NOVEL AND QUIET ARREST IN A CARRIAGE--THE CLERK'S CONFEDERATE CAUGHT--THE PROPERTY RESTORED--THE SCAMPS DECAMP--THE INNOCENT LITERARY LADY'S EYES OPENED. 322 =THE THOUSAND DOLLAR LESSON.= CHARLES PURVIS: TAKING HIM IN CHARGE AT A DISTANCE--HANGERS ON AT THE ST. NICHOLAS AND OTHER HOTEL ENTRANCES--A COLLOQUY, SPICED WITH REMINISCENCES OF "OLD SAM COLT," OF THE "REVOLVER," IN HIS GAY DAYS; A PARTY AT THE "OLD CITY HOTEL," HARTFORD, CONN., AND OTHER THINGS--TRINITY COLLEGE BOYS--"GEORGE ELLSWORTH"--PURVIS AND HE START ON A WALK--"WHERE CAN THEY BE GOING?"--GOING TO SEE ELLSWORTH'S "FRIEND"--AN EXCHANGE OF COATS--A SURVEY TAKEN--A FIRST-CLASS GAMBLING SALOON--A NEW MAN IN THE GAME--PURVIS DRUGGED--HIS "FRIENDS" TAKE HIM "HOME," BUT WHERE?--PURVIS IS RETURNED TO HIS HOTEL IN A STATE OF STUPEFACTION; IS AROUSED; MISSES A THOUSAND DOLLARS--PLANS LAID TO CATCH HIS LATE FRIENDS--WILLIAMS FOUND BY ACCIDENT, AND QUIETLY CAGED--THE OLD IRISH WOMAN'S APPEAL--WILLIAMS "EXPLAINS," AFTER PROPER INDUCEMENT--MOST OF THE MONEY RECOVERED--SUPPLEMENTS. 341 =THE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING.= THE ANTIQUITY OF THAT SHEEP'S SKIN AND ITS PIOUS USEFULNESS--A LARGE LOSS OF SILKS, SATINS, LACES, AND OTHER GOODS--A CONSULTATION--A LONG STUDY--THE VARIOUS CHARACTERS OF SEVERAL CLERKS, WHAT THEY DID, AND HOW THEY KILLED "SPARE TIME"--INFLUENCE OF THE CITY ON MORALS--NEW YORK CENTRAL PARK--A MOST WONDERFUL SERIES OF THEFTS--THE MATTER, INEXPLICABLE AT FIRST, GROWS MORE SUBTLE--A GLEAM OF LIGHT AT LAST--A BRIGHT ITALIAN BOY PLAYS A PART--A LADY FOLLOWED--MORE LIGHT--AN EXTEMPORIZED SERVANT OF THE CROTON WATER BOARD GETS INSIDE A CERTAIN HOUSE--SARAH CROGAN AND I--HOW A HOUSE IN NINETEENTH STREET DELIVERED UP ITS TREASURES--"WILLIAM BRUCE," ALIAS CHARLES PHILLIPS--A VERY STRANGE DENOUEMENT--A MEEK MAN TRANSFORMED; HIS RAGE--A DELIVERY UP, WITH ACCOMPANYING JEWELS--A "WIDOW" NOT A WIDOW REMOVES--WHAT SARAH CROGAN THOUGHT. 358 =A FORCED MARRIAGE SCHEME DEFEATED.=