The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation. Harry Leon Wilson

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

       THE END.

FOREWORD

       Table of Contents

      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