_CALEB WRIGHT_ _CALEB WRIGHT_ _A STORY OF THE WEST_ _BY JOHN HABBERTON_ _Author of_ _"HELEN'S BABIES" "THE JERICHO ROAD" ETC._ _BOSTON LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY_ _COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY._ _ALL RIGHTS RESERVED_ _ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL_ _Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood, Mass._ _CONTENTS_ _Chapter_ _Page_ _I._ _Their Fortune_ 11 _II._ _Taking Possession_ 25 _III._ _Introduced_ 40 _IV._ _Home-making_ 54 _V._ _Business Ways_ 71 _VI._ _The Unexpected_ 94 _VII._ _An Active Partner_ 108 _VIII._ _The Pork-house_ 124 _IX._ _A Western Spectre_ 137 _X._ _She wanted to know_ 150 _XI._ _Caleb's Newest Project_ 163 _XII._ _Deferred Hopes_ 177 _XIII._ _Farmers' Ways_ 194 _XIV._ _Fun with a Camera_ 211 _XV._ _Cause and Effect_ 224 _XVI._ _Decoration Day_ 242 _XVII._ _Foreign Invasion_ 263 _XVIII._ _The Tabby Party_ 281 _XIX._ _Days in the Store_ 299 _XX._ _Profit and Loss_ 316 _XXI._ _Cupid and Corn-meal_ 332 _XXII._ _Some Ways of the West_ 348 _XXIII._ _After the Storm_ 366 _XXIV._ _How it came about_ 381 _XXV._ _Looking Ahead_ 406 _XXVI._ _The Railway_ 428 _XXVII._ _Conclusion_ 444 _CALEB WRIGHT_ I--THEIR FORTUNE ALL people who have more taste than money are as one in the conviction that people with less money than taste suffer more keenly day by day, week by week, year by year, than any other class of human beings. Of this kind of sufferer was Philip Somerton, a young man who had strayed from a far-western country town to New York to develop his individuality and make his fortune, but especially to enjoy the facilities which a great city offers (as every one knows, except the impecunious persons who have tried it) to all whose hearts hunger for whatever is beautiful, refining, and also enjoyable.