XXIV. The Story of the West Wing--A Challenge to the Ghosts--The Yellow-Gray Light--And Breakfast 60 XXV. Authors in Richmond--G. P. R. James, John Esten Cooke, Mrs. Mowatt Ritchie, John R. Thompson, etc.--John Esten Cooke, Gentleman--How Jeb Stuart Made Him a Major 66 XXVI. The Old Life in the Old Dominion and the New--An Old Fogy's Doubts and Questionings 72 XXVII. Under Jeb Stuart's Command--The Legend of the Mamelukes--The Life of the Cavaliers--Tristram Shandy Does Bible Duty--The Delights of the War Game and the Inspiration of It 76 XXVIII. Fitz Lee and an Adventure--A Friendly Old Foe 81 XXIX. Pestilence 86 XXX. Left Behind--A Gratuitous Law Practice Under Difficulties--The Story of Tom Collins--A Death-Bed Repentance and Its Prompt Recall 87 XXXI. Sharp-Shooter Service--Mortar Service at Petersburg--The Outcome of a Strange Story 93 XXXII. The Beginning of Newspaper Life--Theodore Tilton and Charles F. Briggs 99 XXXIII. Theodore Tilton 107 XXXIV. Further Reminiscences of Tilton 111 XXXV. The Tilton-Beecher Controversy--A Story as Yet Untold 115 XXXVI. My First Libel Suit 116 XXXVII. Libel Suit Experiences--The Queerest of Libel Suits--John Y. McKane's Case 119 XXXVIII. Early Newspaper Experiences--Two Interviews with President Grant--Grant's Method 123 XXXIX. Charlton T. Lewis 129 XL. Hearth and Home--Mary Mapes Dodge--Frank R. Stockton--A Whimsical View of Plagiary 131 XLI. Some Plagiarists I Have Known--A Peculiar Case of Plagiary--A Borrower from Stedman 139 XLII. The "Hoosier Schoolmaster's" Influence--Hearth and Home Friendships and Literary Acquaintance--My First Book--Mr. Howells and "A Rebel's Recollections"--My First After-Dinner Speech--Mr. Howells, Mark Twain, and Mr. Sanborn to the Rescue 145 XLIII. A Novelist by Accident--"A Man of Honor" and the Plagiarists of Its Title--A "Warlock" on the Warpath and a Lot of Fun Lost 151 XLIV. John Hay and the Pike County Ballads--His Own Story of Them and of Incidents Connected with Them 157