NEW YORK, December, 1913.
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
GERMINATION
RIPENING
SIXTYFOLD
FINALE
PROLOGUE
I
A faint, golden, metallic rim appears in the east where the sun is rising. The city is beginning to stir; already can be heard an occasional distant rumble of trucks rolling into the streets from the country, large farm-wagons heavily loaded with supplies for the markets—with hay and meat and cordwood. And these wagons make more noise than usual because the pavements are still brittle from nightly frosts. It is the latter part of March.