CHAPTER III. - Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude

Pleasure Before Business--Result of That Method--On Financial

Rocks--James, Otherwise "Jimmy," Irving--He Was a Model

Chief of Detectives--Police Headquarters, 300 Mulberry Street,

in the Early Seventies--He Takes Me for a Drive out Harlem

Lane--A Trio of Detectives--They Make a Startling Proposition--A

$10,000 Temptation--Mental Conflicts--I Dare Not Be Poor--C'est

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