CONTENTS
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land—He
Decides to Remove to Missouri
CHAPTER II.
He Meets With and Adopts the Boy Clay
CHAPTER
III
Uncle Daniel’s Apparition and PrayeR
CHAPTER
IV
The Steamboat Explosion
CHAPTER V
Adoption of the Little Girl Laura—Arrival at Missouri—Reception
by Colonel Beriah Sellers
CHAPTER VI
Trouble and Darkness in the Hawkins Family—Proposed Sale of the
Tennessee Land
CHAPTER VII
Colonel
Sellers at Home—His Wonderful Clock and Cure for Rheumatism
CHAPTER VIII
Colonel Sellers Makes Known His
Magnificent Speculation Schemes and Astonishes Washington Hawkins
CHAPTER IX
Death of Judge Hawkins
CHAPTER X
Laura Hawkins Discovers a Mystery in
Her Parentage and Grows Morbid Under the Village Gossip
CHAPTER XI
A Dinner with Col Sellers—Wonderful
Effects of Raw Turnips
CHAPTER XII
Philip Sterling and Henry Brierly—Arrangements to Go West as
Engineers
CHAPTER XIII
Rail—Road
Contractors and Party Traveling—Philip and Harry form the
Acquaintance of Col Sellers
CHAPTER XIV
Ruth Bolton and Her Parents
CHAPTER XV
Visitors of the Boltons—Mr Bigler “Sees the Legislature”—Ruth
Bolton Commences Medical Studies
CHAPTER XVI
The Engineers Detained at St Louis—Off for Camp—Reception by
Jeff
CHAPTER XVII
The Engineer Corps
Arrive at Stone’s Landing
CHAPTER XVIII
Laura and Her Marriage to Colonel Selby—Deserted and Returns to
Hawkeye
CHAPTER XIX
Harry Brierly
Infatuated With Laura and Proposes She Visit Washington
CHAPTER XX
Senator Abner Dilwortliy Visits Hawkeye—Addresses
the People and Makes the Acquaintance of Laura 186
CHAPTER XXI
Ruth Bolton at Fallkill Seminary—The
Montagues—Ruth Becomes Quite Gay—Alice Montague
CHAPTER XXII
Philip and Harry Visit Fallkill—Harry
Does the Agreeable to Ruth
CHAPTER XXIII
Harry at Washington Lobbying For An Appropriation For Stone’s Landing
—Philip in New York Studying Engineering
CHAPTER
XXIV
Washington and Its Sights—The Appropriation Bill
Reported From the Committee and Passed
CHAPTER
XXV
Energetic Movements at Stone’s Landing—Everything
Booming—A Grand Smash Up
CHAPTER XXVI
The Boltons—Ruth at Home—Visitors and Speculations
CHAPTER XXVII
Col Sellers Comforts His Wife With
His Views on the Prospects
CHAPTER XXVIII
Visit to Headquarters in Wall Street—How Appropriations Are Obtained
and Their Cost
CHAPTER XXIX
Philip’s
Experience With the Rail—Road Conductor—Surveys His Mining
Property
CHAPTER XXX
Laura and Col
Sellers Go To Washington On Invitation of Senator Dilworthy
CHAPTER XXXI
Philip and Harry at the Boltons’—Philip
Seriously Injured—Ruth’s First Case of Surgery
CHAPTER XXXII
Laura Becomes a Famous Belle at
Washington
CHAPTER XXXIII
Society in
Washington—The Antiques, the Parvenus, and the Middle Aristocracy
CHAPTER XXXIV
Grand Scheme For Disposing of
the Tennessee Land—Laura and Washington Hawkins Enjoying the
Reputation of Being Millionaires
CHAPTER XXXV
About Senators—Their Privileges and Habits
CHAPTER
XXXVI
An Hour in a Book Store
CHAPTER
XXXVII
Representative Buckstone and Laura’s Strategic Coquetry
CHAPTER XXXVIII
Reception Day in Washington—Laura
Again Meets Col. Selby and the Effect Upon Her
CHAPTER
XXXIX
Col. Selby Visits Laura and Effects a Reconciliation
CHAPTER XL
Col. Sellers’ Career in
Washington—Laura’s Intimacy With Col. Selby is Talked About
CHAPTER XLI
Harry Brierly Becomes Entirely
Infatuated With Laura—Declares His Love and Gets Laughed At
CHAPTER XLII
How The Hon Mr Trollop Was
Induced to Vote For Laura’s Bill
CHAPTER XLIII
Progress of the Bill in the House
CHAPTER XLIV
Philip in Washington—Visits Laura
CHAPTER
XLV
The Passage of the Bill in the House of Representatives
CHAPTER XLVI
Disappearance of Laura, and
Murder of Col. Selby in New York
CHAPTER XLVII
Laura in the Tombs and Her Visitors
CHAPTER
XLVIII
Mr Bolton Says Yes Again—Philip Returns to the Mines
CHAPTER XLIX
The Coal Vein Found and Lost
Again—Philip and the Boltons—Elated and Then Cruelly
Disappointed 443
CHAPTER L
Philip
Visits Fallkill and Proposes Studying Law With Mr Montague—The
Squire Invests in the Mine—Ruth Declares Her Love for Philip
CHAPTER LI
Col Sellers Enlightens
Washington Hawkins on the Customs of Congress
CHAPTER
LII
How Senator Dilworthy Advanced Washington’s Interests
CHAPTER LIII
Senator Dilworthy Goes West to
See About His Re—election—He Becomes a Shining Light
CHAPTER LIV
The Trial of Laura for Murder
CHAPTER LV
The Trial Continued—Evidence
of Harry Brierly
CHAPTER LVI
The Trial
Continued—Col Sellers on the Stand and Takes Advantage of the
Situation
CHAPTER LVII
The Momentous
Day—Startling News—Dilworthy Denounced as a Briber and
Defeated—The Bill Lost in the Senate
CHAPTER
LVIII
Verdict, Not Guilty !—Laura Free and Receives
Propositions to Lecture—Philip back at the Mines
CHAPTER LIX
The Investigation of the Dilworthy
Bribery Case and Its Results
CHAPTER LX
Laura Decides on her Course—Attempts to Lecture and Fails—Found
Dead in her Chair
CHAPTER LXI
Col
Sellers and Washington Hawkins Review the Situation and Leave Washington
CHAPTER LXII
Philip Discouraged—One
More Effort—Finds Coal at Last
CHAPTER
LXIII
Philip Leaves Ilium to see Ruth—Ruth Convalescent—Alice
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