CHAPTER XIV. MY SON TRIES TO MURDER ME. Settling Down in Maine.
Henry's Health. Tour Through the South. Secession Times. December in
New Orleans. Up the Mississippi. Leaving Henry in Massachusetts.
Back in Maine Again. Return to Boston, Profitable Horse-Trading.
Plenty of Money. My First Wife's Children. How they Have Been
Brought Up. A Barefaced Robbery. Attempt to Blackmail Me. My Son
Tries to Rob and Kill Me. My Rescue Last of the Young Man,

CHAPTER XV. A TRUE WIFE AND HOME AT LAST. Where Were All my Wives?
Sense of Security. An Imprudent Acquaintance. Moving from Maine. My
Property in Rensselaer County. How I Lived. Selling a Recipe. About
Buying a Carpet. Nineteen Lawsuits. Sudden Departure for the West. A
Vagabond Life for Two Years. Life in California. Return to the East.
Divorce from any First Wife. A Genuine Marriage. My Farm. Home at
Last,






SEVEN WIVES AND SEVEN PRISONS

CHAPTER I.

THE FIRST AND WORST WIFE

My Early History-THE FIRST MARRIAGE-LEAVING HOME TO PROSPECT-SENDING
FOR MY WIFE-HER MYSTERIOUS JOURNEY-WHERE I FOUND HER-TEN DOLLARS FOR
NOTHING-A FASCINATING HOTEL CLERK-MY WIFE'S CONFESSION-FROM BAD TO