The Ball of Fire :: CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	No Place for Sentiment	1

II	“Why?”	9

III	The Change in the Rector’s Eyes	22

IV	Too Many Men	35

V	Edward E. Allison Takes a Vacation	47

VI	The Impulsive Young Man From Home	59

VII	They Had Already Spoiled Her!	70

VIII	Still Piecing Out the World	80

IX	The Mine for the Golden Altar	88

X	The Storm Center of Magnetic Attraction	98

XI	“Gentlemen, There is Your Empire!”	111

XII	Gail Solves the Problem of Vedder Court	123

XIII	The Survival of the Fittest	135

XIV	The Free and Entirely Uncurbed	150

XV	But Why Was She Lonesome?	158

XVI	Gail at Home	167

XVII	Something Happens to Gerald Fosland	178

XVIII	The Message from New York	187

XIX	The Rector Knows	199

XX	The Breed of Gail	212

XXI	The Public is Aroused	221

XXII	The Rev. Smith Boyd Protests	231

XXIII	A Series of Gaieties	240

XXIV	The Maker of Maps	250

XXV	A Question of Eugenics	262

XXVI	An Empire and an Empress	271

XXVII	Allison’s Private and Particular Devil	281

XXVIII	Love	289

XXIX	Gail First!	299

XXX	The Flutter of a Sheet of Music	309

XXXI	Gail Breaks a Promise	315

XXXII	Gerald Fosland Makes a Speech	325

XXXIII	Chicken, or Steak?	Clyx.com