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IAn Introduction to the Great City[11]
IIAn Effort to Obtain Employment[20]
IIIAn Evening with Bob Hunter[26]
IVAt Mr. Goldwin’s Office[34]
VThe Contest Between Herbert and Felix[41]
VIA Ray of Sunshine[50]
VIIBob Hunter Thoroughly Aroused[57]
VIIIFelix Mortimer at the Bank[65]
IXBob Assumes a Disguise[75]
XSomething About Herbert Randolph[83]
XIImprisoned at the Fence[87]
XIIBob’s Brilliant Move[94]
XIIIA Terrible Fear[102]
XIVBob Outwits the Old Fence[108]
XVBob and Herbert Meet[113]
XVIThe Old Fence in a Trap[120]
XVIIBob Goes for an Officer[126]
XVIIITom Flannery is Hungry[133]
XIXThe Rivals at the Bank[138]
XXFelix Mortimer Discomfited[142]
XXITwo Young Capitalists[154]
XXIIThe Great Banquet[161]
XXIIIBob Hunter’s Ambition[178]
XXIVA Visit to the Banker’s House[182]
XXVTom Flannery’s Sickness[191]
XXVIA Crash in Wall Street[196]
XXVIIDark Days[201]
XXVIIIIn Business for Himself[210]
XXIXTom Flannery’s Funeral[218]
XXXIn a New Home[224]
XXXIThe Boy Broker[228]
XXXIIThe Conspirators’ Fate[233]
XXXIIIA Glimpse at the Future[236]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Herbert Randolph emerges from the cellar in which he
has been kept a prisoner
,
[Frontispiece.]
The Great City,[10]
“You evidently know all about propriety, so here is my
hand,” said Herbert
,
[13]
Herbert Randolph in the Post Office,[17]
Memories of country life—The greeting by the way,[23]
The benevolent old gentleman presses money on the
country boy
,
[27]
The country boy finds a well filled pocket book,[29]
The country boy to the rescue,[31]
At the Boss Tweed Restaurant,[33]
A Glimpse of Wall Street,[35]
Herbert Randolph finds himself among a mob of
rival applicants
,
[37]
Gunwagner and Felix agree upon a plan,[48]
Young Randolph handed Ray into the carriage with
just enough embarrassment in his manner to interest her
,
[51]
Bob Hunter, alone in his room, wonders what has
become of his new friend
,
[59]
Tom Flannery,[64]
Bob Hunter speaks up for Herbert,[71]
Bob Hunter plays the detective,[77]
A surprise for Felix Mortimer,[85]
Young Randolph at last falls asleep exhausted,[92]
Suddenly realizing his horrible situation, Herbert sprang
upon the bench with a pitiful cry of terror
,
[105]
Gunwagner pursuing the boys,[111]
Gunwagner bursts into the room in a furious mood,[121]
Gunwagner in the hands of the police,[130]
Young Randolph and Bob Hunter confront Felix Mortimer
and charge him with his villainy
,
[147]
“Tom,” said Bob, “here’s a five for you.”[155]
The great banquet,[163]
Bob and Tom coming out of the bank,[179]
Herbert’s first visit to the banker’s house,[185]
“You embarrass me,” said Herbert, blushing,[187]
Tom Flannery in delirium,[194]
Young Randolph again in the ranks of the unemployed,[200]
Herbert Randolph shoveling snow,[203]
Herbert Randolph working on the hoist,[206]
Tom Flannery’s deathbed,[216]
Tom Flannery’s funeral,[221]
Ray reading to Mrs. Flannery,[222]
Mrs. Flannery and the two boys in their new home,[225]
Gunwagner in prison,[234]
Bob Hunter, the student and young business man,[239]