← Table of ContentsBidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude

CHAPTER II.

In a Broker's Office--A Nice Old Gentleman--Situation in Wall

Street--An Up-to-Date Young Man--Visions of Wealth--Speculations--Wall

Street in the Sixties--The Hon. John Morrissey,

ex-Pugilist--His Famous Gambling House--I Try a Game of

Faro--Midnight Banquets--I Have Entered the Primrose

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