| I. | THE MALADY OF THE AGE |
| II. | OLD HOUSE, OLD PEOPLE, OLD CUSTOMS |
| III. | THE HOUSE OF MONGENOD |
| IV. | FAREWELL TO THE LIFE OF THE WORLD |
| V. | THE INFLUENCE OF BOOKS |
| VI. | THE BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE OF CHANTERIE AND COMPANY |
| VII. | MONSIEUR ALAIN TELLS HIS SECRETS |
| VIII. | WHO SHE WAS—WIFE AND MOTHER |
| IX. | THE LEGAL STATEMENT |
| X. | PRAY FOR THOSE WHO DESPITEFULLY USE YOU AND PERSECUTE YOU |
| XI. | THE POLICE OF THE GOOD GOD |
| XII. | A CASE TO INVESTIGATE |
| XIII. | FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS |
| XIV. | HOW THE POOR AND HELPLESS ARE PREYED UPON |
| XV. | AN EVENING WITH VANDA |
| XVI. | A LESSON IN CHARITY |
| XVII. | HALPERSOHN |
| XVIII. | WHO MONSIEUR BERNARD WAS |
| XIX. | VENGEANCE |
On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay