Pages.
["The young woman looked into his face"]20-21
["Her pretty brown eyes nestling"]24-25
["Name me as I was named"]40-41
["The rock battle was now on"]54-55
["What do they take me to be"]86-87
["Yer air jes' a plain, orternary liah"]114-115
["Poor Bud, her helpless husband"]134-135
["To and fro the two men swayed"]164-165
["Is it a crime for me?"]174-175
["I have tellerphoned 'round the world"]184-185
["She made a flag of truce"]188-189
["Don't circumscribe the able, noble souls"]234-235
["We machine men in the South"]258-259
["Ensal bent forward and kissed Tiara"]290-291

CONTENTS.

PAGE.
CHAPTER I.
[OCCURRENCES THAT PUZZLE]11
CHAPTER II.
[HIS FACE WAS HER GUIDE]19
CHAPTER III.
[WHEREIN FORESTA FIRST APPEARS]24
CHAPTER IV.
[THE WAYS OF A SEEKER AFTER FAME]30
CHAPTER V.
[RATHER LATE IN LIFE TO BE STILL NAMELESS]36
CHAPTER VI.
[FRIENDLY ENEMIES]46
CHAPTER VII.
[OFFICERS OF THE LAW]53
CHAPTER VIII.
[A MESSENGER THAT HESITATES]62
CHAPTER IX.
[A PLOTTER IS HE]67
CHAPTER X.
[ARABELLE SEABRIGHT]72
CHAPTER XI.
[UNUSUAL FOR A MAN]77
CHAPTER XII.
[A HONEYMOON OUT OF THE USUAL ORDER]82
CHAPTER XIII.
[SHREWD MRS. CRAWFORD]88
CHAPTER XIV.
[ALENE AND RAMON]94
CHAPTER XV.
[UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENTS]99
CHAPTER XVI.
[AN EAGER SEARCHER]108
CHAPTER XVII.
[PECULIAR DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS]113
CHAPTER XVIII.
[MISTS THAT VANISH]117
CHAPTER XIX.
[THE FUGITIVES FLEE AGAIN]122
CHAPTER XX.
[THE BLAZE]129
CHAPTER XXI.
[PLANNING TO ACT]138
CHAPTER XXII.
[THE TWO PATHWAYS]142
CHAPTER XXIII.
[THEY GRAPPLE]162
CHAPTER XXIV.
[OUT OF JOINT WITH HIS TIMES]167
CHAPTER XXV.
[A JOYFUL FAREWELL]178
CHAPTER XXVI.
[GUS MARTIN]182
CHAPTER XXVII.
[TIARA MYSTIFIES US]187
CHAPTER XXVIII.
[POOR FELLOW!]191
CHAPTER XXIX.
[A REVELATION]195
CHAPTER XXX.
[MR. A. HOSTILITY]201
CHAPTER XXXI.
[TWO OF A KIND]206
CHAPTER XXXII.
[WORKING AND WAITING]214
CHAPTER XXXIII.
[BACK IN ALMAVILLE]220
CHAPTER XXXIV.
[A GREAT DAY IN COURT]224
CHAPTER XXXV.
[EUNICE! EUNICE!]240
CHAPTER XXXVI.
[ENTHUSIASTIC JOHN BLUE]252
CHAPTER XXXVII.
[POSTPONING HIS SHOUT OF TRIUMPH]265
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
[HE CANNOT, BUT HE DOES!]269
CHAPTER XXXIX.
[A SON OF THE NEW SOUTH]276
CHAPTER XL.
[SORROW AND GLADNESS]289

TUNING THE LYRE.

In the long ago when the earth was in process of formation, it must have been that those forces of nature most expert in the fashioning of the beautiful were ordered to come together as collaborators and give to the world Almaville!

Journeying toward the designated spot, they halted on the outskirts of the site of the contemplated city, and tossed up a series of engirdling hills, whose slopes and crests covered with verdure might afford in the days to come a beautiful sight to the inhabitants when riding forth to get a whiff of country air. These same forces of nature, evidently in love with their work, arranged, it seems, for all the beautiful clouds with their varying hues to pass in daily review over the head of the city to be born.