Attempt to Rob Ben--How he became a Minister and Married a Couple--A Jolly Wedding--French Kate Jealous 76 CHAPTER VIII. Attempt to Murder Ben in Babylon--He Shoots a Man and is Arrested--Frightens the Witnesses and Prevents Perjury--Is Acquitted 82 CHAPTER IX. Leaves Oil Country--In Saratoga--Arrested on False Reports--Goes back to Tidioute--In Rochester--First Meeting with Cummings 86 CHAPTER X. The Gymnasium Business--Life in Rochester--First Meeting of Hogan and Tom Allen--A Disgraceful Affair 94 CHAPTER XI. How Ben Treated the Deputy Sheriff--Annie Gibbons, the Pedestrian--Ben goes to Pittsburgh and Meets Mr. Green 102 CHAPTER XII. Ben in St. Louis--First Entree into Parker's Landing-- Opens a Free-and-Easy--Trouble with the Authorities 113 CHAPTER XIII. The "Floating Palace"--A Wonderful Institution--The Girls and the Patrons--Scenes of Revelry--How Nights were Passed--The Loss of the "Palace" 118 CHAPTER XIV. Return to Parker's Landing--His Three Years' Sojourn in that Town--Adventures and Incidents--Attempt to Burn Ben's House 125 CHAPTER XV. Ben buys a House in Pittsburgh--Engineering for a New Railroad--Goes to Petrolia and opens House--The Ladies' Seminary 133 CHAPTER XVI. Ben as a Politician--Elected Burgess of Petrolia, but Cheated out of the Office--Goes to Greece City--Pleasure trip West--Preparations to Fight Tom Allen in St. Louis 142 CHAPTER XVII. The famous Fight with Tom Allen 151 CHAPTER XVIII. What came of the Fight--Allen's Treachery--Attempts to kill Ben in St. Louis 159 CHAPTER XIX. Ben in Chicago--Returns to Pittsburgh--More of Allen-- Builds Opera Houses in Petrolia and Millerstown--Figures once more in Politics 166 CHAPTER XX. Ben as a Banker (Faro Banker)--Burglars--Counterfeit Money, and How Hogan Didn't Handle it--Ben as a Doctor-- Allen in New York City--Why the Fight Fell Through 175 CHAPTER XXI. The Girl Ben Met in Owney Geoghegan's--A Confiding Sea Captain--Adventure in Little Falls--Pitching a Man Across the Erie Canal--Return to Syracuse 181 CHAPTER XXII. Another Challenge to Allen--Brookville and Indiana Adventures 187 CHAPTER XXIII.