I. IN WHICH GABRIEL RECOGNISES THE PROPRIETIES 243 II. TRANSIENT GUESTS AT THE GRAND CONROY 257 III. IN WHICH MR. DUMPHY TAKES A HOLIDAY 266 IV. MR. DUMPHY HAS NEWS OF A DOMESTIC CHARACTER 280 V. MRS. CONROY HAS AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR 291 VI. GABRIEL DISCARDS HIS HOME AND WEALTH 299 VII. WHAT PASSED UNDER THE PINE AND WHAT REMAINED THERE 305 BOOK VI.--A DIP. I. MR. HAMLIN'S RECREATION CONTINUED 317 II. MR. HAMLIN TAKES A HAND 325 III. MR DUMPHY TAKES POINSETT INTO CONFIDENCE 338 IV. MR. HAMLIN IS OFF WITH AN OLD LOVE 349 V. THE THREE VOICES 354 VI. MR. DUMPHY IS PERPLEXED BY A MOVEMENT IN REAL ESTATE 363 VII. IN WHICH BOTH JUSTICE AND THE HEAVENS FALL 376 VIII. IN TENEBRIS SERVARE FIDEM 387 IX. IN WHICH HECTOR ARISES FROM THE DITCH 398 BOOK VII.--THE BED ROCK. I. IN THE TRACK OF A STORM 409 II. THE YELLOW ENVELOPE 423 III. GABRIEL MEETS HIS LAWYER 435 IV. WHAT AH FE DOES NOT KNOW 447 V. THE PEOPLE _v._ JOHN DOE _alias_ GABRIEL CONROY, AND JANE ROE _alias_ JULIE CONROY 452 VI. IN REBUTTAL 461 VII. A FAMILY GREETING 471 VIII. IN WHICH THE FOOTPRINTS RETURN 477 IX. IN WHICH MR. HAMLIN PASSES 481 X. IN THE OLD CABIN AGAIN 491 XI. THE RETURN OF A FOOTPRINT 495 XII. FRAGMENT OF A LETTER FROM OLYMPIA CONROY TO GRACE POINSETT 497 GABRIEL CONROY. BOOK I. _ON THE THRESHOLD._ CHAPTER I. WITHOUT. Snow. Everywhere. As far as the eye could reach--fifty miles, looking southward from the highest white peak,--filling ravines and gulches, and dropping from the walls of cañons in white shroud-like drifts, fashioning the dividing ridge into the likeness of a monstrous grave, hiding the bases of giant pines, and completely covering young trees and larches, rimming with porcelain the bowl-like edges of still, cold lakes, and undulating in motionless white billows to the edge of the distant horizon. Snow lying everywhere over the California Sierras on the 15th day of March 1848, and still falling.