CONTENTS
[CHAPTER I.]
Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land—He Decides to Remove to Missouri
[CHAPTER II.]
He Meets With and Adopts the Boy Clay
[CHAPTER III]
Uncle Daniel’s Apparition and PrayeR
[CHAPTER IV]
The Steamboat Explosion
[CHAPTER V]
Adoption of the Little Girl Laura—Arrival at Missouri—Reception by Colonel Beriah Sellers
[CHAPTER VI]
Trouble and Darkness in the Hawkins Family—Proposed Sale of the Tennessee Land
[CHAPTER VII]
Colonel Sellers at Home—His Wonderful Clock and Cure for Rheumatism
[CHAPTER VIII]
Colonel Sellers Makes Known His Magnificent Speculation Schemes and Astonishes Washington Hawkins
[CHAPTER IX]
Death of Judge Hawkins
[CHAPTER X]
Laura Hawkins Discovers a Mystery in Her Parentage and Grows Morbid Under the Village Gossip
[CHAPTER XI]
A Dinner with Col Sellers—Wonderful Effects of Raw Turnips
[CHAPTER XII]
Philip Sterling and Henry Brierly—Arrangements to Go West as Engineers
[CHAPTER XIII]
Rail—Road Contractors and Party Traveling—Philip and Harry form the Acquaintance of Col Sellers
[CHAPTER XIV]
Ruth Bolton and Her Parents
[CHAPTER XV]
Visitors of the Boltons—Mr Bigler “Sees the Legislature”—Ruth Bolton Commences Medical Studies
[CHAPTER XVI]
The Engineers Detained at St Louis—Off for Camp—Reception by Jeff
[CHAPTER XVII]
The Engineer Corps Arrive at Stone’s Landing
[CHAPTER XVIII]
Laura and Her Marriage to Colonel Selby—Deserted and Returns to Hawkeye
[CHAPTER XIX]
Harry Brierly Infatuated With Laura and Proposes She Visit Washington
[CHAPTER XX]
Senator Abner Dilwortliy Visits Hawkeye—Addresses the People and Makes the Acquaintance of Laura 186
[CHAPTER XXI]
Ruth Bolton at Fallkill Seminary—The Montagues—Ruth Becomes Quite Gay—Alice Montague
[CHAPTER XXII]
Philip and Harry Visit Fallkill—Harry Does the Agreeable to Ruth
[CHAPTER XXIII]
Harry at Washington Lobbying For An Appropriation For Stone’s Landing —Philip in New York Studying Engineering
[CHAPTER XXIV]
Washington and Its Sights—The Appropriation Bill Reported From the Committee and Passed
[CHAPTER XXV]
Energetic Movements at Stone’s Landing—Everything Booming—A Grand Smash Up
[CHAPTER XXVI]
The Boltons—Ruth at Home—Visitors and Speculations
[CHAPTER XXVII]
Col Sellers Comforts His Wife With His Views on the Prospects
[CHAPTER XXVIII]
Visit to Headquarters in Wall Street—How Appropriations Are Obtained and Their Cost
[CHAPTER XXIX]
Philip’s Experience With the Rail—Road Conductor—Surveys His Mining Property
[CHAPTER XXX]
Laura and Col Sellers Go To Washington On Invitation of Senator Dilworthy
[CHAPTER XXXI]
Philip and Harry at the Boltons’—Philip Seriously Injured—Ruth’s First Case of Surgery
[CHAPTER XXXII]
Laura Becomes a Famous Belle at Washington
[CHAPTER XXXIII]
Society in Washington—The Antiques, the Parvenus, and the Middle Aristocracy
[CHAPTER XXXIV]
Grand Scheme For Disposing of the Tennessee Land—Laura and Washington Hawkins Enjoying the Reputation of Being Millionaires
[CHAPTER XXXV]
About Senators—Their Privileges and Habits
[CHAPTER XXXVI]
An Hour in a Book Store
[CHAPTER XXXVII]
Representative Buckstone and Laura’s Strategic Coquetry
[CHAPTER XXXVIII]
Reception Day in Washington—Laura Again Meets Col. Selby and the Effect Upon Her
[CHAPTER XXXIX]
Col. Selby Visits Laura and Effects a Reconciliation
[CHAPTER XL]
Col. Sellers’ Career in Washington—Laura’s Intimacy With Col. Selby is Talked About
[CHAPTER XLI]
Harry Brierly Becomes Entirely Infatuated With Laura—Declares His Love and Gets Laughed At
[CHAPTER XLII]
How The Hon Mr Trollop Was Induced to Vote For Laura’s Bill
[CHAPTER XLIII]
Progress of the Bill in the House
[CHAPTER XLIV]
Philip in Washington—Visits Laura
[CHAPTER XLV]
The Passage of the Bill in the House of Representatives
[CHAPTER XLVI]
Disappearance of Laura, and Murder of Col. Selby in New York
[CHAPTER XLVII]
Laura in the Tombs and Her Visitors
[CHAPTER XLVIII]
Mr Bolton Says Yes Again—Philip Returns to the Mines
[CHAPTER XLIX]
The Coal Vein Found and Lost Again—Philip and the Boltons—Elated and Then Cruelly Disappointed 443
[CHAPTER L]
Philip Visits Fallkill and Proposes Studying Law With Mr Montague—The Squire Invests in the Mine—Ruth Declares Her Love for Philip
[CHAPTER LI]
Col Sellers Enlightens Washington Hawkins on the Customs of Congress
[CHAPTER LII]
How Senator Dilworthy Advanced Washington’s Interests
[CHAPTER LIII]
Senator Dilworthy Goes West to See About His Re—election—He Becomes a Shining Light
[CHAPTER LIV]
The Trial of Laura for Murder
[CHAPTER LV]
The Trial Continued—Evidence of Harry Brierly
[CHAPTER LVI]
The Trial Continued—Col Sellers on the Stand and Takes Advantage of the Situation
[CHAPTER LVII]
The Momentous Day—Startling News—Dilworthy Denounced as a Briber and Defeated—The Bill Lost in the Senate
[CHAPTER LVIII]
Verdict, Not Guilty !—Laura Free and Receives Propositions to Lecture—Philip back at the Mines
[CHAPTER LIX]
The Investigation of the Dilworthy Bribery Case and Its Results
[CHAPTER LX]
Laura Decides on her Course—Attempts to Lecture and Fails—Found Dead in her Chair
[CHAPTER LXI]
Col Sellers and Washington Hawkins Review the Situation and Leave Washington
[CHAPTER LXII]
Philip Discouraged—One More Effort—Finds Coal at Last
[CHAPTER LXIII]
Philip Leaves Ilium to see Ruth—Ruth Convalescent—Alice
[APPENDIX]