Hamlin Garland.

Chicago, May, 1897.

Contents

A Spoil of Office
Chapter Page
I.The grange picnic[1]
II.The dinner under the oaks[17]
III.Bradley resolves to go to school[26]
IV.Bradley's Trials at school[38]
V.Bradley rises to address the Carthaginians[58]
VI.Bradley attends a convention[78]
VII.The farmers oust the ring[87]
VIII.Bradley offends Nettie's father[95]
IX.Bradley meets Mrs. Brown[102]
X.A country polling place[111]
XI.Studying with the judge[122]
XII.The judge advises Bradley[129]
XIII.Bradley sees Ida again[136]
XIV.Bradley changes his political views[158]
XV.Home again with the judge[169]
XVI.Nomination[180]
XVII.Election[195]
XVIII."Don't blow out the gas"[203]
XIX.Cargill takes Bradley in hand[218]
XX.At the State House[232]
XXI.Bradley and Cargill call on Ida[242]
XXII.The judge plans a new campaign[253]
XXIII.On to Washington[265]
XXIV.Radbourn shows Bradley about the Capital[272]
XXV.Ida comes into his life again[289]
XXVI.Congressional life[296]
XXVII.Bradley's long-cherished hope vanishes[306]
XXVIII.Spring conventions[314]
XXIX.Bradley discouraged[327]
XXX.The great round up[334]
XXXI.Ida shows Bradley the way out[350]
XXXII.Conclusion.[367]

A SPOIL OF OFFICE

[I.]

The grange picnic