LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

  "He was constructing what seemed to be some kind of frail mechanical toy." "It must try your patience pretty sharply sometimes." One-armed Pete "Father, I am going to shake hands with Major Hawkins." "Must he go down in his spectral night dress?" "Clah to goodness it's de fust time I've sot eyes on 'em." Parker, assistant editor of the Democrat "How do you do?" "Both were so paralyzed with joy." "It had already happened." "His thoughts had been far away from these things." "Fool or no fool, he would grab it." "No. 5 started a laugh." Capt. Saltmarsh and brother of the brush Wasted sewer gas "Eastward with that great light transfiguring their faces." It was a violent case of mutual love at first sight "Time dragged heavily for both, now." "Oh, my God, she's kissing it!" "The shady devil had knifed her." "You an earl's son! Show me the signs." "My father!" "Finally there was a quiet wedding at the Towers."