The First Week of July--News of the Reverses before Richmond--Painful Feeling of the Whole Country--How a Nation weeps Tears of Blood--The Estimation of McClellan--The Curse of Absenteeism--Public Abhorrence of the Shoulder-strapped Heroes on Broadway--A Scene at the World Corner, and a Hero in Disguise 129 CHAPTER X. Leslie and Harding following up the Prince-Street Mystery--A Call upon Superintendent Kennedy--How Tom Leslie wished to play Detective--A Bit of a Rebuff--A Massachusetts Regiment going to the War--Miss Joe Harris and Bell Crawford in a Street Difficulty--A Rescue and a Recognition--A Trip into Taylor's Saloon 142 CHAPTER XI. The True Characters of Men and of Houses--Fifth Avenue and the Swamp--Gilded Vice, and Vice without Ornament--The Progress of Temptation--The Legends of the Lurline and the Frozen Hand--Dangers of Fashionable Restaurants--Scenes at Taylor's Saloon--Tom Leslie, Joe Harris and Bell Crawford at Lunch--The Fortune-teller selected by Miss Harris for a Visit--Wanted, a Knight for Two Distressed Damsels--Tom Leslie enlists, and goes after his Armor 160 CHAPTER XII. A Glance at Fortune-telling and other Delusions--Our Domestic and Personal Superstitions--Omens and their Origin--The Witch of Endor, Hamlet and Macbeth--One Strange Illustration of Prophecy in Dreams--The Fortune-tellers of New York, Boston and Washington 172 CHAPTER XIII. Ten Minutes at a Costumer's--Among the Robes of Queens and the Rags of Beggars--How Tom Leslie suddenly grew to Sixty, and changed Clothes accordingly--Josephine Harris and Bell Crawford still at Lunch, with a Dissertation upon One Pair of Eyes--An Unwarrantable Intrusion, and a Decided Sensation at Taylor's 187 CHAPTER XIV. Necromancy in a Thunder-storm--How Tom Leslie and his Female Companions called upon Madame Elise Boutell, from Paris, in Prince Street--A New Way of Gambling for Precedence--Bell Crawford takes her Turn--A very improper Joining of Hands in the Outer Apartment--About Chances, Accidents and Little Things--The Change in Bell Crawford's Eyes--Eyes that have looked within--Two Pictures in the Old Dusseldorf Gallery--Joe Harris Undergoing the Ordeal--A Thunder-clap and a Shriek of Terror--What Tom Leslie saw in the Apartment of the Red Woman--A Mask removed, and one more Temptation 198 CHAPTER XV. Camp Lyon, and Colonel Egbert Crawford's Two Hundredth Regiment--Recruiting Discipline in the Summer of 1862--What Smith and Brown saw--Lager-beer, Cards and the Dice-box--An Adjutant who obeys Orders--A Dress Parade a la mode--How Seven Hundred Men may be squeezed into Three 218 CHAPTER XVI.