CHAPTER IX.
Dortmund .-- Railroad Enterprise and Prospective Fortune .-- Henry Schulte's Love .-- An Insult and Its Resentment .-- An Oath of Revenge 93 CHAPTER X.
A Curse, and Plans of Vengeance 109 CHAPTER XI.
A Moonlight Walk .-- An Unexpected Meeting .-- The Murder of Emerence Bauer .-- The Oath Fulfilled 115 CHAPTER XII.
The Search for the Missing Girl .-- The Lover's Judgment .-- Henry Schulte's Grief .-- The Genial Farmer Becomes the Grasping Miser 122 CHAPTER XIII.
Henry Schulte becomes the Owner of "Alten-Hagen."-- Surprising Increase in Wealth .-- An Imagined Attack Upon His Life .-- The Miser Determines to Sail for America 131 CHAPTER XIV.
The Arrival in New York .-- Frank Bruner Determines to Leave the Service of His Master .-- The Meeting of Frank Bruner and William Bucholz 148 CHAPTER XV.
A History of William Bucholz .-- An Abused Aunt who Disappoints His Hopes .-- A Change of Fortune .-- The Soldier becomes a Farmer .-- The Voyage to New York 157 CHAPTER XVI.
Frank Leaves the Service of His Master .-- A Bowery Concert Saloon .-- The Departure of Henry Schulte .-- William Bucholz Enters the Employ of the Old Gentleman 166 THE DETECTION..