IX. NEWS FROM COLORADO, 85 X. THE VENGEANCE THAT SLUMBERED TWENTY YEARS, 96 XI. YOUNG CANADA ON DECK, 106 XII. THE PROTECTORATE ABANDONED, 116 XIII. A BACHELOR’S “DEN,” 127 XIV. THE MAN OF THE WORLD, 138 XV. HEARD AT THE SHERMAN TABLE D’HÔTE, 148 XVI. ENGAGED, 159 BOOK III. _What Happened at the Grain King’s Palace._ XVII. COLONEL BOB WAITS FOR HIS MESSAGE, 172 XVIII. BY SPECIAL DELIVERY, 181 XIX. THE FALL OF THE MIGHTY OAK, 191 XX. SAMSON CEREAL & SON, 201 XXI. AN ACCOMMODATING SHERIFF, 213 XXII. “HAPPY JACK,” 222 XXIII. WHAT THE OLD CAMEL BLANKET CONCEALED, 232 XXIV. HER ATONEMENT, 243 BOOK IV. _The Spider’s Web of Cairo Street._ XXV. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND, 253 XXVI. AGAIN UNDER THE WITCHERY OF CAIRO STREET, 263 XXVII. THE OLD GAME OF THE SPIDER AND THE FLY, 273 XXVIII. DOROTHY, 284 XXIX. THE PASHA CLAPS HIS HANDS, 294 XXX. THE LAST ACT, 304 THE SPIDER’S WEB; OR, THE BACHELOR OF THE MIDWAY. _BOOK ONE._ IN THE SHADOW OF THE FERRIS WHEEL. CHAPTER I. WHAT THE MOON SAW IN THE MIDWAY. “Eight days I have haunted this beehive, fought my way through the multitude, looked into tens of thousands of faces, and yet failed to find her. I’m afraid, Aleck Craig, you’re on a wild goose chase, and the sooner you return to Montreal the better for your peace of mind. Eight days! and six of them spent amid the infernal clatter of this bedlam. I’ve been wondering what the sensations of a man would be, could he go to sleep in Canada and awaken right _here_.” The tall, well-built pilgrim from over the border, dressed in a quiet suit of Scotch cheviot and carrying a Japanese cane, purchased no doubt in the bazaar, laughs softly as in imagination he pictures the bewilderment and positive alarm that would overwhelm an unfortunate placed in the midst of his present surroundings suddenly.