Humorous stories; Mistaken identity -- Fiction; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
CHAPTER XI.
No work for Tracy—Cheaper lodgings secured—Sleeping on the roof—“My
daughter Hattie”—Tracy receives further “impressions” from Hattie
(otherwise “Puss”)—Mr. Barrow appears—And offers to help Tracy find
work
CHAPTER XII.
A boarding—house dinner—“No money, no dinner” for Mr. Brady—“How did
you come to mount that hat?”—A glimpse of (the supposed) one-armed
Pete—Extract from Tracy’s diary
CHAPTER XIII.
Tracy and trades-unions—Unpopularity with fellow-boarders—Which changes
to popularity on his punishing Allen—The cablegram
CHAPTER XIV.
“Mechanics’ Debating Club” again—Tracy is comforted by Barrow’s
remarks—“Fool or _no_ fool, he would grab it”—“Earldom! oh, yes, take
it if it offers"
CHAPTER XV.
“You forgot to pay your board”—“I’ve been robbed “—Mr. Allen among the
missing, likewise other things—The cablegram: “Thanks”—Despair of
Tracy—“You’ve got to amuse your mind"
CHAPTER XVI.
The collaborative art collection—The artists—“The cannon’s our
trademark”—Tracy’s mind _is_ amused
CHAPTER XVII.
No further cablegram—“If those ghastly artists want a confederate, I’m
their man”—Tracy taken into partnership—Disappointments of
materialization —The phonograph adapted to marine service —Utilization
of wasted sewer gas
CHAPTER XVIII.
The colonel’s project to set Russia free—“I am going to buy
Siberia”—The materializee turns up—Being an artist he is invited to
restore the colonel’s collection—Which he forthwith begins
CHAPTER XIX.
The perplexities and nobilities of materialization—The materializee
eats a couple of apples—Horror of Hawkins and Sellers—It must be a
mistake"
CHAPTER XX.
Tracy’s perplexities with regard to the Claimant’s sanity—The Claimant
interviews him—Sally Sellers meets Tracy —A violent case of love at
first sight—Pinks
CHAPTER XXI.
Empty painting; empty millinerizing—Tracy’s work satisfactory—
Sellers’s new picture of Lord Berkeley—“He is a wobbler”—The
unsuccessful dinner—parties—“They flung their arms about each other’s
necks"
CHAPTER XXII.
“The materializing has got to stop where it is”—Sally Sellers
repudiates “Lady Gwendolen”—The late Lord Berkeley Sally’s hero—“The
shady devil [Doubt] had knifed her"
CHAPTER XXIII.
Tracy writes to his father—The rival houses to be united by his
marriage to Sally Sellers—The earl decides to “step over and take a
hand”—“The course of true love,” etc., as usual—“You an earl’s son!
show me the signs"
CHAPTER XXIV.
Time drags heavily for all concerned—Success of “Pigs in the
Clover”—Sellers is “fixed” for his temperance lecture— Colonel and Mrs.
Sellers start for Europe—Interview of Hawkins and Sally—Tracy an
impostor
CHAPTER XXV.
Telegram: “She’s going to marry the materializee”—Interview between
Tracy and Sally—Arrival of the usurping earl—“You can have him if
you’ll take him”—A quiet wedding at the Towers—Sellers does not join
the party to England—Preparing to furnish climates to order
APPENDIX.
The weather in this book
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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