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