CONTENTS

[BOOK ONE]
WHICH IS THE STORY OF THE CANDLE AND COMPASS

[I ][The Melon Harvest]
[II ][I Meet the Silent Woman and Silas Wright, Jr]
[III ][We Go to Meeting and See Mr. Wright Again]
[IV ][Our Little Strange Companion]
[V ][In the Light of the Candles]
[VI ][The Great Stranger]
[VII ][My Second Peril]
[VIII ][My Third Peril]
[IX] [In Which I Meet Other Great Men]
[X] [I Meet President Van Buren and Am
Cross-Examined by Mr. Grimshaw]
[XI] [A Party and—My Fourth Peril?]
[XII] [The Spirit of Michael Henry and Others]
[XIII] [The Thing and Other Things]
[XIV] [The Bolt Falls]
[XV] [Uncle Peabody's Way and Mine]
[XVI] [I Use My Own Compass at a Fork in the Road]
[XVII] [The Man with the Scythe]
[XVIII] [I Start in a Long Way]
[XIX] [On the Summit]
[Epilogue]

BOOK ONE