Letter from the Prisoners at Chester, Ill.--Extract of Chaplain's Report--Suicide of a Prisoner--"I Have no Friends"--Letters from Chaplain Starr--A Way Opened in Answer to Prayer--A Letter from a Governor--A Woman Converted and Healed--A Change Wrought--A Chaplain in My Audience--Impressed to Tarry-- Encouragement by the Way--Cruel Neglect--Another Suicide--Just Out of Prison--Dying in Prison--Does It Pay?--Saved and Preaching the Gospel--In Solitary Confinement--Crape on the Door--In a Police Station--Burned in His Cell--The Innocent in Bonds-- Confessed Her Guilt--Under Sentence of Death--"The Religion Mother Had" 135 CHAPTER IX. CONVERSION OF DESPERATE PRISONERS PREVENTS A TERRIBLE MUTINY. Welcomed in Prison--An After-Service--Plan of the Mutiny--Havoc of Sin--Letters 161 CHAPTER X. REMARKABLE CONVERSION AND EXPERIENCE OF GEO. H. COLGROVE. His Own Story--Infidel Literature--Burglary and Murder--Life Sentence--Conversion--Study of the Scriptures--Bible Class Teacher--An Enemy Kindly Treated--A Pardon Refused--Second Effort to Secure a Pardon--Letters--Final Illness and Triumphant Death 169 CHAPTER XI. WORK IN STOCKADES AND PRISON CAMPS IN SOUTHERN STATES. Race Question--Letters of Introduction and Recommendation--A Stockade--Letter to a Governor--Reply of Prison Manager--Plea for Women Convicts--Bloodhounds--Coal Mines--A Touching Incident--First Meeting in a Prison Camp--Ride on Engine of a Coal Train--First Railroad Pass--Ride on a Mule 187 CHAPTER XII. STOCKADES AND PRISON CAMPS CONTINUED. Novel Conveyances--Assisting a Colored Minister--Through Danger Alone--Prostrate Among Prisoners--A Meeting at Day Dawn--Helping to Bury a Prisoner--Wreck of a Coal Train--Sugar Camps--Ride in a Cart--In a Gambling Saloon--Condition of Convicts--Unjustly Condemned--Need of Reform 212 CHAPTER XIII. WORK IN FT. MADISON, IOWA, AND SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO. My First Effort for Service in a Prison--Kindness of Officers and Men--Letters from Officials--Work in Santa Fe, N. Mex.-- Three Christian Men Pardoned--A Forty Years' Sentence--Kind Words from Governor and Superintendent 241 CHAPTER XIV. GONE HOME FROM THE SCAFFOLD. Special Mission to Doomed Men--Indifferent but Finally Converted--Letters--Mother's Prayers--Claimed to Be Innocent-- Hardened in Crime--Ten Men under Death Sentence--Conversion of a Jewish Boy--Mysteriously Guided--In Long Expectation-- Sentence Commuted--A Man Deceived--Interceded for a Boy--Went to the Scaffold Singing--A Prominent Official--Recent Cases 254 CHAPTER XV. WORK IN CHURCHES AND MISSIONS.