IV THE TROUBLE SHAPING 42 V THE TOOL 50 VI HAMER’S HUT 54 VII THE TROUBLE COMING.--THE GREEN GATES OF VISION:--II. MORNING 63 VIII NEW WINE IN OLD BOTTLES 77 IX THE UPPER AND THE NETHER STONES 89 X TERROR BY NIGHT 102 XI THE TROUBLE COMING.--THE GREEN GATES OF VISION:--III. MOONLIGHT 106 XII THE REAL THINGS 122 XIII HAMER’S FIRST TRAM 137 XIV THE OLD ORDER 150 XV THE BEGINNING OF THE END 175 XVI SPURS TO GLORY 184 XVII THE GREEN GATES OF VISION:--IV. DARK--THE LONELY PLOUGH 196 XVIII HAMER’S SECOND TRAM 203 XIX UNDER THE JUNIPER-TREE 216 XX WIGGIE’S FIVE MINUTES 232 XXI THE TROUBLE COMING 256 XXII COMING 266 XXIII COME. THE GREEN GATES OF VISION:--V. THE OUTER DARK 275 XXIV MOTHERING SUNDAY 296 XXV ONE MAN’S WORK 297 XXVI HIS SILLY HOME 306 XXVII THE GREEN GATES OF VISION:--VI. SWEETHEART-TIME 325 XXVIII HAIL AND FAREWELL! 344 THE LONELY PLOUGH CHAPTER I ACROSS THE DUB He felt very old. Older than the old face at the table before him, than the office furniture, which had been there before he was born, than his father’s portrait over the desk; older even than the tulip-tree bowing its graceful head to his window. Very old. They said the tulip-tree blossomed no more than once in a hundred years. It was an ancient tree, biding its time as ancient things may. But Lancaster felt older even than that.