ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO

LAIRD & LEE, PUBLISHERS

Copyrighted 1897, by Wm. H. Lee.

(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

CONTENTS

Chapter Page
1.[Sam Lyman]7
2.[The Noted Advocate]14
3.[The Timely Oracle]21
4.[A Fog Between Them]38
5.[The Belle of the Town]49
6.[Humbled Into the Dust]55
7.[The Wedding Breakfast]63
8.[Suppressing the News]70
9.[At Church]83
10.[The Old Fellow Laughed]91
11.[In the Lantern Light]100
12.[Wanted to Dream]112
13.[In a Magazine]122
14.[Nothing Remarkable in It]132
15.[Must Leave the Town]143
16.[Sawyer's Plan]155
17.[At the Creek]164
18.[At the Wagon Maker's Shop]174
19.[A Restless Night]181
20.[Afraid in the Dark]191
21.[With Old Jasper]197
22.[The "Boosy"]207
24.[After an Anxious Night]222
24.[At Mt. Zion]235
25.[At Nancy's Home]249
26.[Out in the Dark]262
27.[The Revenge]270
28.[A Gentleman Mule-Buyer]278
29.[Gone Away]294
30.[The Home]306
31.[There Came a Check]316
32.[Laughed at His Weakness]326
33.[The Petition]338