CHAPTER XXVI The Boltons--Ruth at Home--Visitors and Speculations
CHAPTER XXVII Col Sellers Comforts His Wife With His Views on the Prospects
64. NOT EASILY REFERRED 65. ORDER, GENTLEMEN 66. THE SENATOR'S WALK 67. RESIDENCE OF SQUIRE MONTAGUE 68. INSIDE THE MANSION 69. RUTH DISSIPATING 70. TAIL PIECE 71. ANTICIPATION 72. REALITY 73. PHILIP HEARS HARRY ENTERTAINING RUTH 74. AN ENTERTAINING FELLOW 75. HARRY EXPLAINS BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE 76. PHILIP STUDYING 77. “KEEP OUT OF HERE, SIR!” 78. AN OLD ONE 79. A PROMENADE OUTFIT 80. REARED BY A GRATEFUL COUNTRY 81. BENEFIT OF POLITICAL INFLUENCE 82. TAIL PIECE 83. VISIONS OF A HAPPY MAN 84. EXODUS OF THE NATIVES 85. HARRY BRIERLY FLIES FROM THE MOB 86. ENJOYING THE BONFIRE 87. BROTHER PLUM 88. RUTH AT HOME 89. MAP OF THE SALT LICK BRANCH OF THE PACIFIC R. R. 90. RESULT OF A STRAIGHT LINE
Mr. Harry Brierly drew his pay as an engineer while he was living at the City Hotel in Hawkeye. Mr. Thompson had been kind enough to say that it didn't make any difference whether he was with the corps or not; and although Harry protested to the Colonel daily and to Washington Hawkins that he must go back at once to the line and superintend the lay-out with reference to his contract, yet he did not go, but wrote instead long letters to Philip, instructing him to keep his eye out, and to let him know when any difficulty occurred that required his presence.
Meantime Harry blossomed out in the society of Hawkeye, as he did in any society where fortune cast him and he had the slightest opportunity to expand. Indeed the talents of a rich and accomplished young fellow like Harry were not likely to go unappreciated in such a place. A land operator, engaged in vast speculations, a favorite in the select circles of New York, in correspondence with brokers and bankers, intimate with public men at Washington, one who could play the guitar and touch the banjo lightly, and who had an eye for a pretty girl, and knew the language of flattery, was welcome everywhere in Hawkeye. Even Miss Laura Hawkins thought it worth while to use her fascinations upon him, and to endeavor to entangle the volatile fellow in the meshes of her attractions.
“Gad,” says Harry to the Colonel, “she's a superb creature, she'd make a stir in New York, money or no money. There are men I know would give her a railroad or an opera house, or whatever she wanted--at least they'd promise.”