The wanderers of earth turned to her—outcast of the older lands—
With a promise and hope in their pleading, and she reached them pitying hands;
And she cried to the Old-World cities that drowse by the Eastern main:
"Send me your weary, house-worn broods and I'll send you Men again!
Lo, here in my wind-swept reaches, by my marshalled peaks of snow,
Is room for a larger reaping than your o'ertilled fields can grow.
Seed of the Main Seed springing to stature and strength in my sun,
Free with a limitless freedom no battles of men have won,"
For men, like the grain of the corn fields, grow small in the huddled crowd,
And weak for the breath of spaces where a soul may speak aloud;
For hills, like stairways to heaven, shaming the level track,
And sick with the clang of pavements and the marts of the trafficking pack.
Greatness is born of greatness, and breadth of a breadth profound;
The old Antaean fable of strength renewed from the ground
Was a human truth for the ages; since the hour of the Edenbirth
That man among men was strongest who stood with his feet on the earth!
SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL.
CHAPTER I. The Second Generation is Removed
CHAPTER II. How the First Generation Once Righted Itself
CHAPTER III. Billy Brue Finds His Man
CHAPTER IV. The West Against the East
CHAPTER V. Over the Hills
CHAPTER VI. A Meeting and a Clashing
CHAPTER VII. The Rapid-fire Lorgnon Is Spiked
CHAPTER VIII. Up Skiplap Canon
CHAPTER IX. Three Letters, Private and Confidential
CHAPTER X. The Price of Averting a Scandal
CHAPTER XI. How Uncle Peter Bines Once Cut Loose
CHAPTER XII. Plans for the Journey East
CHAPTER XIII. The Argonauts Return to the Rising Sun
CHAPTER XIV. Mr. Higbee Communicates Some Valuable Information
CHAPTER XV. Some Light With a Few Side-lights
CHAPTER XVI. With the Barbaric Hosts
CHAPTER XVII. The Patricians Entertain
CHAPTER XVIII. The Course of True Love at a House Party
CHAPTER XIX. An Afternoon Stroll and an Evening Catastrophe
CHAPTER XX. Doctor Von Herzlich Expounds the Hightower Hotel and Certain Allied Phenomena
CHAPTER XXI. The Diversions of a Young Multi-millionaire
CHAPTER XXII. The Distressing Adventure of Mrs. Bines
CHAPTER XXIII. The Summer Campaign Is Planned
CHAPTER XXIV. The Sight of a New Beauty, and Some Advice from Higbee
CHAPTER XXV. Horace Milbrey Upholds the Dignity of His House
CHAPTER XXVI. A Hot Day in New York, with News of an Interesting Marriage
CHAPTER XXVII. A Sensational Turn in the Milbrey Fortunes
CHAPTER XXVIII. Uncle Peter Bines Comes to Town With His Man
CHAPTER XXIX. Uncle Peter Bines Threatens to Raise Something
CHAPTER XXX. Uncle Peter Inspires His Grandson to Worthy Ambitions
CHAPTER XXXI. Concerning Consolidated Copper and Peter Bines as Matchmakers
CHAPTER XXXII. Devotion to Business and a Chance Meeting
CHAPTER XXXIII. The Amateur Napoleon of Wall Street
CHAPTER XXXIV. How the Chinook Came to Wall Street
CHAPTER XXXV. The News Broken, Whereupon an Engagement is Broken
CHAPTER XXXVI. The God in the Machine
CHAPTER XXXVII. The Departure of Uncle Peter—And Some German Philosophy
CHAPTER XXXVIII. Some Phenomena Peculiar to Spring
CHAPTER XXXIX. An Unusual Plan of Action Is Matured
CHAPTER XL. Some Rude Behaviour, of Which Only a Western Man Could Be Guilty
CHAPTER XLI. The New Argonauts
