CHAPTER XLVIII. — THE HEIRESS.
CHAPTER XLIX. — A SELECT PARTY.
CHAPTER LIII. — SLIGO MOULTRIE vice ABEL NEWT.
CHAPTER LIV. — CLOUDS AND DARKNESS.
CHAPTER LV. — ARTHUR MERLIN’S GREAT PICTURE.
CHAPTER LVII. — DINING WITH LAWRENCE NEWT.
CHAPTER LVIII. — THE HEALTH OF THE JUNIOR PARTNER.
CHAPTER LIX. — MRS. ALFRED DINKS.
CHAPTER LXI. — GONE TO PROTEST.
CHAPTER LXII. — THE CRASH, UP TOWN.
CHAPTER LXV. — THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
CHAPTER LXVI. — MENTOR AND TELEMACHUS.
CHAPTER LXVIII. — THE INDUSTRIOUS APPRENTICE.
CHAPTER LXX. — THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE.
CHAPTER LXXI. — RICHES HAVE WINGS.
CHAPTER LXXIII. — THE BELCH PLATFORM.
CHAPTER LXXVI. — A SOCIAL GLASS.
CHAPTER LXXVII. — FACE TO FACE.
CHAPTER LXXVIII. — FINISHING PICTURES.
CHAPTER LXXIX. — THE LAST THROW.
CHAPTER LXXX. — CLOUDS BREAKING.
CHAPTER LXXXI. — MRS. ALFRED DINKS AT HOME.
CHAPTER LXXXII. — THE LOST IS FOUND.
CHAPTER LXXXIII. — MRS. DELILAH JONES.
CHAPTER LXXXIV. — PROSPECTS OF HAPPINESS.
CHAPTER LXXXV. — GETTING READY.
CHAPTER LXXXVI. — IN THE CITY.
CHAPTER LXXXVII. — A LONG JOURNEY.
CHAPTER LXXXIX. — DUST TO DUST.
CHAPTER I. — SCHOOL BEGINS.
Forty years ago Mr. Savory Gray was a prosperous merchant. No gentleman on ‘Change wore more spotless linen or blacker broadcloth. His ample white cravat had an air of absolute wisdom and honesty. It was so very white that his fellow-merchants could not avoid a vague impression that he had taken the church on his way down town, and had so purified himself for business. Indeed a white cravat is strongly to be recommended as a corrective and sedative of the public mind. Its advantages have long been familiar to the clergy; and even, in some desperate cases, politicians have found a resort to it of signal benefit. There are instructive instances, also, in banks and insurance offices of the comfort and value of spotless linen. Combined with highly-polished shoes, it is of inestimable mercantile advantage.
Mr. Gray prospered in business, and nobody was sorry. He enjoyed his practical joke and his glass