Chapter I: Introduction

A truthful narrative, not a tale of fiction, is presented in the following chapters to our readers. All that the imagination has contributed to it has been the names of the actors,--true names having been withheld, lest, perhaps, friends might be grieved,--the filling up of the dialogues, in which, while thoughts and sentiments have been remembered, the verbiage that clothed them has been forgotten, and, in a few instances, the grouping together of incidents that actually occurred at wider intervals than here represented, for the sake of the unity of the story.

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.
RODNEY UNHAPPY IN A GOOD HOME 7

CHAPTER II.
REVOLVING AND RESOLVING 18

CHAPTER III.
RODNEY IN NEW YORK 26

CHAPTER IV.
RODNEY FINDS A PATRON 33

CHAPTER V.
RODNEY IN PHILADELPHIA 44

CHAPTER VI.
THE PUNISHMENT BEGINS 53

CHAPTER VII.
THE WATCH-HOUSE 60

CHAPTER VIII.
RODNEY IN JAIL 73

CHAPTER IX.
THE DUNGEON 88

CHAPTER X.
THE HOSPITAL 99

CHAPTER XI.
THE TRIAL 118

CHAPTER XII.
CONCLUSION 128

THE RUNAWAY.