CHAPTER PAGEI.—[President Harding and the Clock. God's Time as it was in the American Political Consciousness ]3II.—[God's Time as it is; an Ingersoll that Requires Much Winding ]21III.—[Golden Words Turn to Brass ]36IV.—[The Super-President Goes Down in the General Smash ]61V.—[Looking for Ultimate Wisdom—in the Bosom of Thérèse ]80VI.—[Shall We Find our Salvation Sitting, Like Mr. Mellon, on a Pile of Dollars ]101VII.—[The Bottle Neck of the Cabinet, and What is in the Bottle ]119VIII.—[The Greatest Common Divisor of Much Littleness ]142IX.—[Congress at Last with Something to Do has no one to Do it ]156X.—[Interlude. Introducing a Few Members of the Upper House Booboisie and Some Others ]173XI.—[A Peak of Reality Thrusts up on the Level Plain of Shams ]204XII.—[The Happy Ending ]226ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE[President Warren Gamaliel Harding ]Frontispiece[Uncle Sam's Conference ]26[Representative Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming ]44[Lord Riddell ]96[Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury ]112[Arthur Balfour ]130[Attorney-General H. M. Daugherty ]138[Senator James E. Watson of Indiana ]160[Representative Frederick H. Gillett of Massachusetts ]166[Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey ]180[Senator Harry S. New of Indiana ]188[Senator James W. Wadsworth of New York ]190[Senator William M. Calder of New York ]192[Senator Arthur I. Capper of Kansas ]216[Gray Silver, the Man Behind the Farm Bloc ]222BEHIND THE MIRRORS