THE SLAVES OF THE LAMP, 273 CHAPTER XXIV. MAMIE GOES TO THE SHOW, 298 CHAPTER XXV. KITTY FARNUM TAKES THE PRIZE, 308 CHAPTER XXVI. FLOSSIE ENJOYS HERSELF, 319 CHAPTER XXVII. JEM STARBUCK AMUSES HIMSELF, 329 CHAPTER XXVIII. ARTHUR HAS A LITTLE DINNER, 349 CHAPTER XXIX. CAPTAIN DERWENT SEALS HIS FATE, 360 CHAPTER XXX. ARTHUR IS MADE HAPPY, 370 CHAPTER XXXI. A FINANCIER’S DINNER, 376 CHAPTER XXXII. THE DEACON’S VENGEANCE, 384 CHAPTER XXXIII. THE DUVAL BALL, 395 CHAPTER XXXIV. THE DUVAL BALL, Concluded, 402 CHAPTER XXXV. SORTIE DU BAL, 415 CHAPTER XXXVI. THE NIGHT AT THE WORKS, 421 CHAPTER XXXVII. THE OLDEST MEMBER, 435 CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE END OF THE EPISODE, 445 CHAPTER XXXIX. FLOSSIE DECLINES, 458 CHAPTER XL. THE FLOWERS IN THE HARVEST, 466 FIRST HARVESTS. CHAPTER I. THE SILAS STARBUCK OIL COMPANY. On the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-second Street, just where the long rise of the avenue begins, and vanishes in higher perspective like the stage of a theatre, its long slope always dotted with a multitude of yellow carriages, cabs, and dark-green private broughams, there stands a large brown-stone house of irreproachable respectability. The steps in front of the door are also of brown-stone; and the columns on either side terminate in the hollow globes of iron, painted green, common to a thousand other houses in New York. Upon the first floor above the basement are three windows and a door; in the second story are four windows, one above the door; and in the third, four others again. The windows are all of the same size; but those of the second and third stories are plain, while the lowest have above them an oval design with flowery, curved ornaments. What the original designer of these windows sought to express in them is not clear; but subsequent builders, not seeing the need of expressing anything in window-caps, but supposing some adornment proper in that place, have copied them without deviation, much as a lady ties a bow-knot on her lapdog’s tail.