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CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

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• CHAPTER I.
  Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land—He Decides to Remove to Missouri 17

• CHAPTER II.
  He Meets With and Adopts the Boy Clay 31

• CHAPTER III.
  Uncle Daniel's Apparition and Prayer 35

• CHAPTER IV.
  The Steamboat Explosion 41

• CHAPTER V.
  Adoption of the Little Girl Laura—Arrival at Missouri—Reception by Colonel
  Eschol Sellers 53

• CHAPTER VI.
  Trouble and Darkness in the Hawkins Family—Proposed Sale of the Tennessee
  Land 62

• CHAPTER VII.
  Colonel Sellers at Home—His Wonderful Clock and Cure for Rheumatism 75

• CHAPTER VIII.
  Colonel Sellers Makes Known His Magnificent Speculation Schemes and
  Astonishes Washington Hawkins 83

• CHAPTER IX.
  Death of Judge Hawkins 93

• CHAPTER X.
  Laura Hawkins Discovers a Mystery in Her Parentage and Grows Morbid
  Under the Village Gossip 100

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• CHAPTER XI.
  A Dinner with Col. Sellers—Wonderful Effects of Raw Turnips 108

• CHAPTER XII.
  Philip Sterling and Henry Brierly—Arrangements to Go West as Engineers 114

• CHAPTER XIII.
  Rail-Road Contractors and Party Traveling—Philip and Harry form the
  Acquaintance of Col. Sellers 122

• CHAPTER XIV.
  Ruth Bolton and Her Parents 132

• CHAPTER XV.
  Visitors of the Boltons—Mr. Bigler “Sees the Legislature”—Ruth Bolton
  Commences Medical Studies 139

• CHAPTER XVI.
  The Engineers Detained at St. Louis—Off for Camp—Reception by Jeff
  Thompson 149

• CHAPTER XVII.
  The Engineer Corps Arrive at Stone's Landing 159

• CHAPTER XVIII.
  Laura and Her Marriage to Colonel Selby—Deserted and Returns to Hawkeye 168

• CHAPTER XIX.
  Harry Brierly Infatuated With Laura and Proposes She Visit Washington 177

• CHAPTER XX.
  Senator Abner Dilworthy 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 194

• CHAPTER XXII.
  Philip and Harry Visit Fallkill—Harry Does the Agrecable to Ruth 202

• CHAPTER XXIII.
  Harry at Washington Lobbying For An Appropriation For Stone's Landing
  —Philip in New York Studying Engineering 213

• CHAPTER XXIV.
  Washington and Its Sights—The Appropriation Bill Reported From the
  Committee and Passed 217

• CHAPTER XXV.
  Energetic Movements at Stone's Landing—Everything Booming—A Grand
  Smash Up 228

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• CHAPTER XXVI.
  The Boltons—Ruth at Home—Visitors and Speculations 235

• CHAPTER XXVII.
  Col. Sellers Comforts His Wife With His Views of the Prospects 244

• CHAPTER XXVIII.
  Visit to Headquarters in Wall Street—How Appropriations Are Obtained
  and Their Cost 250

• CHAPTER XXIX.
  Philip's Experience With the Rail-Road Conductor—Surveys His Mining
  Property 269

• CHAPTER XXX.
  Laura and Col. Sellers Go To Washington On Invitation of Senator Dilworthy 274

• CHAPTER XXXI.
  Philip and Harry at the Boltons'—Philip Seriously Injured—Ruth's First
  Case of Surgery 278

• CHAPTER XXXII.
  Laura Becomes a Famous Belle at Washington 288

• CHAPTER XXXIII.
  Society in Washington—The Antiques, the Parvenus, and the Middle Aristocracy
  295

• CHAPTER XXXIV.
  Grand Scheme For Disposing of the Tennessee Land—Laura and Washington
  Hawkins Enjoying the Reputation of Being Millionaires 314

• CHAPTER XXXV.
  About Senators—Their Privileges and Habits 320

• CHAPTER XXXVI.
  An Hour in a Book Store 329

• CHAPTER XXXVII.
  Representative Buckstone and Laura's Strategic Coquetry 335

• CHAPTER XXXVIII.
  Reception Day in Washington—Laura Again Meets Col. Selby and the Effect
  Upon Her 340

• CHAPTER XXXIX.
  Col. Selby Visits Laura and Effects a Reconciliation 349

• CHAPTER XL.
  Col. Sellers' Career in Washington—Laura's Intimacy With Col. Selby is
  Talked About 355

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• CHAPTER XLI.
  Harry Brierly Becomes Entirely Infatuated With Laura—Declares His Love
  and Gets Laughed At 362

• CHAPTER XLII.
  How The Hon. Mr. Trollop Was Induced to Vote For Laura's Bill 372

• CHAPTER XLIII.
  Progress of the Bill in the House 390

• CHAPTER XLIV.
  Philip in Washington—Visits Laura 396

• CHAPTER XLV.
  The Passage of the Bill in the House of Representatives 404

• CHAPTER XLVI.
  Disappearance of Laura, and Murder of Col. Selby in New York 416

• CHAPTER XLVII.
  Laura in the Tombs and Her Visitors 426

• CHAPTER XLVIII.
  Mr. Bolton Says Yes Again—Philip Returns to the Mines 434

• 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 453

• CHAPTER LI.
  Col. Sellers Enlightens Washington Hawkins on the Customs of Congress 465

• CHAPTER LII.
  How Senator Dilworthy Advanced Washington's Interests 473

• CHAPTER LIII.
  Senator Dilworthy Goes West to See About His Re-election—He Becomes a
  Shining Light 476

• CHAPTER LIV.
  The Trial of Laura for Murder 484

• CHAPTER LV.
  The Trial Continued—Evidence of Harry Brierly 494

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• CHAPTER LVI.
  The Trial Continued—Col. Sellers on the Stand and Takes Advantage of the
  Situation 503

• CHAPTER LVII.
  The Momentous Day—Startling News—Dilworthy Denounced as a Briber
  and Defeated—The Bill Lost in the Senate 513

• CHAPTER LVIII.
  Verdict, Not Guilty!—Laura Free and Receives Propositions to Lecture—
  Philip back at the Mines 521

• CHAPTER LIX.
  The Investigation of the Dilworthy Bribery Case and Its Results 530

• CHAPTER LX.
  Laura Decides on her Course—Attempts to Lecture and Fails—Found Dead
  in her Chair 543

• CHAPTER LXI.
  Col. Sellers and Washington Hawkins Review the Situation and Leave
  Washington 552

• CHAPTER LXII.
  Philip Discouraged—One More Effort—Finds Coal at Last 560

• CHAPTER LXIII.
  Philip Leaves Ilium to see Ruth—Ruth Convalescent—Alice 567

• APPENDIX 576