Before and after Gettysburgh--The Apathy and Despair which preceded, and the Jubilation which followed--What Kitty Hood said after the Battle, and what Robert Brand--Brother and Sister--A guest at the Fifth Avenue Hotel--A fire-room Visit, an Interview, and a Departure for Europe 200 CHAPTER XI. Anomalies of the War for the Union--The Watering-place rush of 1863--A White Mountain party disembarking at Littleton--Who filled the Concord coach--The Vanderlyns--Shoddy on its travels--Mr. Brooks Cunninghame and his Family--"H. T." and an Excitement 219 CHAPTER XII. Landing at the Profile House--Halstead Rowan and Gymnastics--How that person saw Clara Vanderlyn and became a Rival of "H. T."--The Full Moon in the Notch--Trodden Toes, a Name, a Voice, and a Rencontre--Margaret Hayley and Capt. Hector Coles--The Old Man of the Mountain by Moonlight, and a Mystery 237 CHAPTER XIII. Miss Clara Vanderlyn and her Pet Bears--A misadventure and a Friendly Hand in time--The question of Courage--Halstead Rowan and Mrs. Brooks Cunninghame on Geography--The Dead Washington, the Flume and the Pool--With the personal relations weaving at that juncture. 255 CHAPTER XIV. A disaster to Master Brooks Brooks Cunninghame--Exit into the bottom of the Pool--Nobody that could swim, and Margaret Hayley in Excitement--"H. T." in his element, in two senses--Another Introduction and a new Hero--Scenes in the Profile parlor--Rowan and Clara Vanderlyn--The Insult 279 CHAPTER XV. How Halstead Rowan arranged that expected Duel--Ten-pins versus bloodshed--Some anxiety about identity--The "H. T." initials, again--A farewell to the Brooks Cunninghames--An hour on Echo Lake, with a Rhapsody and a strangely-interested Listener 298 CHAPTER XVI. Cloud and Storm at the Profile--Sights and Sensations of a rainy-day ride to the Crawford--Horace Townsend and Halstead Rowan once more together--Unexpected Arrivals--A cavalcade of Miserables--An ascent of Mount Washington, with Equestrianism and War-whoops extraordinary 323 CHAPTER XVII. Horace Townsend with a Lady in charge--An adventure over the "Gulf of Mexico"--Clara Vanderlyn in deadly peril--A moment of horror--Halstead Rowan and a display of the Comanche riding--Townsend's eclipse--The return to the Crawford--Margaret Hayley again, and a Conversation overheard 348 CHAPTER XVIII.