[CHAPTER XIV.]
“Mechanics’ Debating Club” again—Tracy is comforted by Barrow’s remarks—“Fool or no fool, he would grab it”—“Earldom! oh, yes, take it if it offers"
[CHAPTER XV.]
“You forgot to pay your board”—“I’ve been robbed “—Mr. Allen among the missing, likewise other things—The cablegram: “Thanks”—Despair of Tracy—“You’ve got to amuse your mind"
[CHAPTER XVI.]
The collaborative art collection—The artists—“The cannon’s our trademark”—Tracy’s mind is amused
[CHAPTER XVII.]
No further cablegram—“If those ghastly artists want a confederate, I’m their man”—Tracy taken into partnership—Disappointments of materialization —The phonograph adapted to marine service —Utilization of wasted sewer gas
[CHAPTER XVIII.]
The colonel’s project to set Russia free—“I am going to buy Siberia”—The materializee turns up—Being an artist he is invited to restore the colonel’s collection—Which he forthwith begins
[CHAPTER XIX.]
The perplexities and nobilities of materialization—The materializee eats a couple of apples—Horror of Hawkins and Sellers—It must be a mistake"
[CHAPTER XX.]
Tracy’s perplexities with regard to the Claimant’s sanity—The Claimant interviews him—Sally Sellers meets Tracy —A violent case of love at first sight—Pinks
[CHAPTER XXI.]
Empty painting; empty millinerizing—Tracy’s work satisfactory— Sellers’s new picture of Lord Berkeley—“He is a wobbler”—The unsuccessful dinner—parties—“They flung their arms about each other’s necks"
[CHAPTER XXII.]
“The materializing has got to stop where it is”—Sally Sellers repudiates “Lady Gwendolen”—The late Lord Berkeley Sally’s hero—“The shady devil [Doubt] had knifed her"
[CHAPTER XXIII.]
Tracy writes to his father—The rival houses to be united by his marriage to Sally Sellers—The earl decides to “step over and take a hand”—“The course of true love,” etc., as usual—“You an earl’s son! show me the signs"