chapter i the mag attracting——a waif amid forces chapter ii what poverty threatened——of granite and brass chapter iii wee questionof fortune——four-fifty a week chapter iv the spens of fancy——facts answer with sneers chapter v a glittering night flower——the use of a name chapter vi the machine and the maiden——a knight of today chapter vii the lure of the material——beauty speaks for itself chapter viii intimations by winter——an ambassador summoned chapter ix conventions own tinderbox——the eye that is green chapter x the counsel of winter——fortunes ambassador calls chapter the persuasion of fashion——feeling guards oer its own chapter i of the lam of the mansions——the ambassadors plea chapter ii his credentials accepted——a babel of tongues chapter v with eyes and not seeing——-one influence wanes chapter xv the irk of the old ties——the magic of youth chapter xvi a witless aladdin——the gate to the world chapter xvii a glime through the gatew——hope lightens the eye chapter xviii just over the border——a hail and farewell chapter ~ix an hour in elfland——a clamor half heard chapter xx the lure of the spirit——the flesh in pursuit chapter x the lure of the spirit——the flesh in pursuit chapter the blaze of the tinder——flesh wars with the flesh chapter i a spirit in travail——one rung put behind chapter xxw ashes of tinder——a face at the window chapter xxv ashes of tinder——the loosing of stays chapter xxvi the ambassador fallen——a search for the gate chapter xxvii when waters engulf us——we reach for a star chapter xxviii a pilgrim, an outlaw——the spirit detained chapter xx the solace of travel——the boats of the sea chapter xxx the kingdom of greatness——the pilgrim adream chapter xx a pet of good fortune——broadway flaunts its joys chapter x the feast of belshazzar——a seer to translate chapter xxu without the walled city——the slope of the years chapter xxv the grind of the millstones——a sample of chaff chapter xxxv the passing of effort——the visage of care chapter xxxvi a grim retrogression——the phantom of chance chapter xxxvii the spirit awakens——new search for the gate chapter xxxviii in elf land disporting——the grim world without chapter xxx of lights and of shadows——the parting of worlds chapter xl a public dissension——a final appeal chapter xli the strike chapter xlii a touch of spring——the empty shell chapter xliii the world turns flatterer——an eye in the dark chapter xliv and this is not elf land——what gold will not buy chapter xlv curious shifts of the poor chapter xlvi stirring troubled waters chapter xlvii the way of the beaten——a harp in the wind
it wa in augut 1889. he wa eighteen year ofage bright timid and full of the illuion of ignorance andyouth. whatever touch of regret at parting characterizedher thought it wa certainly not for advantage now beinggiven up. a guh of tear at her mother farewell ki atouch in her throat when the car clacked by the flour millwhere her father worked by the day a pathetic igh a thefamiliar green environ of the village paed in review andthe thread which bound her o lightly to girlhood and homewere irretrievably broken. to be ure there wa alway the next tation where onemight decend and return. there wa the great city boundmore cloely by thee very train which came up daily.columbia city wa not o very far away even once he wain chicago. what pray i a few hour——a few hundred mile?he looked at the little lip bearing her iter addre andwondered. he gazed at the green landcape now paing inwift review until her wifter thought reced it impreionwith vague conjecture of what chicago might be. when a girl leave her home at eighteen he doe one oftwo thing. either he fall into aving hand and beebetter or he rapidly aume the opolitan tandardof virtue and bee wore. of an intermediate balance under the circumtance there i no ibility. the cityha it cunning wile no le than the infinitely maller andmore human tempter. there are large force which allurewith all the oulfulne of expreion ible in the motcultured human. the gleam of a thouand light i often aeffective a the peruaive light in a wooing and facinatingeye. half the undoing of the unophiticated and naturalmind i acplihed by force wholly uperhuman. a blareof ound a roar of life. a vat array of human hive appealto the atonihed ene in equivocal term. without acounelor at hand to whiper cautiou interpretation whatfalehood may not thee thing breathe into the unguardedear!
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