Rochester.-- A Profitable Field for Mrs. Winslow.-- Her sumptuous Apartments.-- The Detectives at Work.-- Mrs. Winslow's Cautiousness.-- Child-Training.-- Mysterious Drives.-- A dapper little Blond Gentleman.-- Two Birds with one Stone.-- A French Divinity.-- Le Compte. 87
The Half-way House.-- A jolly German Landlord.-- Detective Fox runs down Le Compte.-- A "Positive, Prophetic, Healing and Trance Medium."-- Harcout the Adviser reappears, and is anxious lest Mr. Lyon be drawn into some terrible Confession.-- Mr. Pinkerton decides to know more about Le Compte.-- And with the harassed Mr. Lyon interviews him.-- Treachery and Blackmail.-- "A much untractable Man."-- Light shines upon Mrs. Winslow.-- Another Man.-- Mr. Pinkerton mad. 98
The Raven of the Detroit Cottage in another Character.-- Mrs. Winslow yearns for a retired Montreal Banker.-- Love's Rivalry.-- A mysterious Note.-- The Response.-- Another Trip to Port Charlotte by four Hearts that beat as one.-- What Mr. Pinkerton, as one of the party, sees and hears.-- "Jones of Rochester."-- Le Compte and Mrs. Winslow resolve to fly to Paris, "the magnificent, the beautiful, the sublime!"-- "My God, are they all that way?" 114
Mr. Pinkerton again interviews Le Compte.-- And very much desires to wring his Neck.-- A Bargain and Sale.-- Le Compte's Story-- "Little by Little, Patience by Patience."-- A Toronto Merchant in Mrs. Winslow's Toils.-- Detective Bristol, "the retired Banker," in Clover.-- Tabitha, Amanda, and Hannah individually and collectively woo him.-- Ancient Maidens full of Soul.-- A Signal. 128
Mr. Bangs on the Trail in the West.-- Terre Haute and its Spiritualists.-- Mrs. Deck's Boarding-house.-- The Nettleton Family broken up.-- Back at the Michigan Exchange.-- Mother Blake's Recital.-- Through Chicago to Wisconsin.-- A disheartening Story.-- The practical result of Spiritualism. 141
A Chicago Divorce "Shyster."-- Hosford found.-- His pathetic Narrative.-- More Facts. 151
Mrs. Winslow's Signal answered.-- She endeavors to win Bristol, and shows that they are "Affinities."-- Detective Fox mystified.-- An Evening with the One fair Woman.-- Closer Intimacies.-- A Journey proposed.-- Detective Bristol as a Lover. 162