PART II

I. SIDETRACKED 73

II. VISITED BY THE WHITECAPS 83

III. THE CADIZ BANK LOOT 96

IV. AN EXPENSIVE CHICKEN 109

V. A ROCK CLEFT FOR ME 130

VI. ’TWAS A SWEET BABE 156

VII. POLICE SHIELD NOT WORN FOR HEALTH 165

VIII. SHERIFF SMITH’S BRIBE--THE LITTLE JOKER 185

IX. BREVOORT STABLES 207

X. I CORRUPT A BANK CLERK 215

XI. A COLOSSAL BANK BURGLING ENTERPRISE 232

XII. JUGGLING WITH DEATH 244

XIII. CAPTAIN JOHN YOUNG’S GRAB 272

XIV. PLOTTING AGAINST YOUNG 286

XV. MY PATENT SAFETY SWITCH AND JIM IRVING 303

XVI. HARD WORK UNDER GREAT DIFFICULTIES 319

XVII. MARK MAKES PI OF LOCK TUMBLERS 337

XVIII. DISPOSITION OF OCEAN BANK LOOT 341

XIX. A CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH 356

XX. TALL JIM MOVES FROM COLUMBUS PRISON 368

XXI. JIM BURNS AND HIS CONGRESSMAN PAL 380

XXII. WILLIAM HATCH, ESQUIRE, DAY WATCHMAN 403

XXIII. THE PLOT THAT FAILED 421

XXIV. THE PERFIDY OF CAPTAIN JIM IRVING 440

XXV. SOME DETECTIVES I FOUND USEFUL 463

XXVI. THE MICROBE “CALLOUSITIS” 480

FROM BONIFACE TO BANK BURGLAR