"To ply your old trade?" I asked.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. [My First Failure ]1
II. [The Jew and the Christian ]5
III. [The Fight ]16
IV. [Delilah ]26
V. [The Hare and the Tortoise ]36
VI. [The Meteor ]44
VII. [The Hegira ]55
VIII. [Padan-Aram ]67
IX. [I Pitch My Tent ]84
X. [A New Girl ]103
XI. [Eleanor Leigh ]114
XII. [John Marvel ]138
XIII. [Mr. Leigh ]147
XIV. [Miss Leigh Seeks Work ]154
XV. [The Lady of the Violets ]172
XVI. [The Shadow of Sham ]186
XVII. [The Gulf ]198
XVIII. [The Drummer ]215
XIX. [Re-enter Peck ]227
XX. [My First Client ]245
XXI. [The Resurrection of Dix ]259
XXII. [The Preacher ]275
XXIII. [Mrs. Argand ]286
XXIV. [Wolffert's Mission ]305
XXV. [Fate Leads ]319
XXVI. [Coll McSheen's Methods ]339
XXVII. [The Shadow ]354
XXVIII. [The Walking Delegate ]361
XXIX. [My Confession ]381
XXX. [Seeking One That Was Lost ]398
XXXI. [John Marvel's Raid ]416
XXXII. [Doctor Caiaphas ]430
XXXIII. [The Peace-maker ]453
XXXIV. [The Flag of Truce ]465
XXXV. [Mr. Leigh has a Proposal of Marriage Made Him ]493
XXXVI. [The Riot and Its Victim ]507
XXXVII. [Wolffert's Neighbors ]517
XXXVIII. [Wolffert's Philosophy ]527
XXXIX. [The Conflict ]539
XL. [The Curtain ]563

ILLUSTRATIONS

["To ply your old trade?" I asked ]Frontispiece
[Wolffert ... was cursing me with all the eloquence of a rich vocabulary ]20
["Hi! What you doin'?" he stammered ]60
["But you must not come in" ]140
["Perhaps, you are the man yourself?" she added insolently ]302
["Speak her soft, Galley" ]412
["I suppose it is necessary that we should at least appear to be exchanging the ordinary inanities" ]468
[I am sure it was on that stream that Halcyone found retreat ]556