A DIGNIFIED REAL ESTATE HOLDER, VERY WEALTHY, LOSES SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE DOLLARS--OUR FIRST COUNCIL AT THE HOWARD HOUSE--VISIT TO HIS HOUSE TO EXAMINE HIS SAFE AND SERVANTS--A LOTTERY TICKET, NO. 1710, FOUND IN THE SAFE--HOW CAME THIS MYSTERIOUS PAPER THERE?--CONCLUSIONS THEREON--VISIT TO BALTIMORE, AND PLANS LAID IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE LOTTERY AGENT TO CATCH THE THIEF--THE TICKET "DRAWS"--THE NEW YORK AGENCY "MANAGED"--TRAP TO IDENTIFY THE THIEF--THE SECURITY AND "SOLITUDE" OF A GREAT CITY--A NEW YORK BANKER--MR. LATIMER VISITS A GAMBLING HOUSE IN DISGUISE--IDENTIFIES THE SUSPECTED YOUNG MAN--THE AGENT AT BALTIMORE WAXES GLEEFUL--HIS PLAN OF OPERATIONS OVERRULED--MEETING OF "INTERESTED PARTIES" AT THE OFFICE IN BALTIMORE--A LITTLE GAME PLAYED UPON THE NEW YORK AGENT--MR. WORDEN, THE THIEF, IDENTIFIES THE TICKET, AND FALLS INTO THE TRAP OF A PRE-ARRANGED "DRAFT"--DISCLOSES SOME OF THE IDENTICAL MONEY STOLEN--WE ARREST HIM--EXCITING SCRAMBLE--THE MONEY RECOVERED--WORDEN'S AFTER LIFE. 131 =PAYNE AND THE COUNTERFEITERS.= AN IDLE TIME--A CALL FROM MY OLD "CHIEF"--THE CASE IN HAND OUTLINED--I DISCOVER AN OLD ENEMY IN THE LIST OF COUNTERFEITERS, AND LAY MY PLANS--TAKE BOARD IN NINETEENTH STREET, AND OPEN A LAW OFFICE IN JAUNCEY COURT--MAKE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF MRS. PAYNE, LEWELLYN'S MOTHER, AND FINALLY GET ACQUAINTED WITH HIM--HE VISITS MY LAW OFFICE--I AM INGRATIATED IN HIS FAVOR--I TRACK HIM INTO MY ENEMY'S COMPANY, AND FEEL SURE OF SUCCESS--LEWELLYN FINALLY CONFESSES TO ME HIS TERRIBLE SITUATION--CERTAIN PLANS LAID--I MAKE "COLLINS'S" ACQUAINTANCE--VISIT A GAMBLING SALOON WITH HIM--A HEAVY WAGER--$15,000 AT HAZARD, PAYNE'S ALL--THE COUNTERFEITING GAMBLERS CAUGHT TOGETHER--SEVERE STRUGGLE--PAYNE SAVED AT LAST, AND HIS MONEY TOO--A REFORMED SON AND A HAPPY MOTHER--TWO "BIRDS" SENT TO THE PENITENTIARY. 153 =THE GENEALOGICAL SWINDLERS.= PRIDE OF ANCESTRY IN THE UNITED STATES--IT IS SOMETIMES MORE PROFITABLE TO OTHERS THAN TO THOSE WHO INDULGE IT--"PROPERTY IN CHANCERY"--A WESTERN MERCHANT, HIS STORY, AND HOW HE TOLD IT--A FAMILY MEETING AT NEW HAVEN, AND WHAT A MEMBER LEARNED THERE--THE GREAT "LORD, KING, & GRAHAM" SWINDLE--THE WAY IN WHICH THE FRAUD WAS ACCOMPLISHED--A CUNNING LETTER FROM "WILLIS KING," OF THE FIRM OF LORD, KING, & GRAHAM, TO ONE OF HIS RELATIVES--THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THIS NOTED FIRM--THE SEARCH--THE TRAP LAID--THE SHARPERS CAUGHT, AND FOUND TO BE EDUCATED YOUNG MEN OF THE HIGHEST SOCIAL STATUS--THEY ARE MADE TO DISGORGE--A PARADOX, WITH A MORAL IN IT. 176 =HATTIE NEWBERRY, THE VERMONT BEAUTY.=