The American Claimant

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Explanatory · The Weather in This Book
Explanatory The Colonel Mulberry Sellers here re-introduced to the public is the same person who appeared as Eschol Sellers in the first ed…
Chapter I
It is a matchless morning in rural England. On a fair hill we see a majestic pile, the ivied walls and towers of Cholmondeley Castle, huge…
Chapter II
Colonel Mulberry Sellers—this was some days before he wrote his letter to Lord Rossmore—was seated in his “library,” which was also his “dr…
Chapter III
Mrs. Sellers returned, now, with her composure restored, and began to ask after Hawkins’s wife, and about his children, and the number of t…
Chapter IV
The day wore itself out. After dinner the two friends put in a long and harassing evening trying to decide what to do with the five thousan…
Chapter V
No answer to that telegram; no arriving daughter. Yet nobody showed any uneasiness or seemed surprised; that is, nobody but Washington. Aft…
Chapter VI
In the course of time the twins arrived and were delivered to their great kinsman. To try to describe the rage of that old man would profit…
Chapter VII
Arrived in his room Lord Berkeley made preparations for that first and last and all-the-time duty of the visiting Englishman—the jotting do…
Chapter VIII
“God bless my soul, Hawkins!” The morning paper dropped from the Colonel’s nerveless-grasp. “What is it?” “He’s gone!—the bright, the young…
Chapter IX
The earl and Washington started on the sorrowful errand, talking as they walked. “And as usual!” “What, Colonel?” “Seven of them in that ho…
Chapter X
The young Lord Berkeley, with the fresh air of freedom in his nostrils, was feeling invincibly strong for his new career; and yet—and yet—i…
Chapter XI
During the first few days he kept the fact diligently before his mind that he was in a land where there was “work and bread for all.” In fa…
Chapter XII
Presently the supper bell began to ring in the depths of the house, and the sound proceeded steadily upward, growing in intensity all the w…
Chapter XIII
The days drifted by, and they grew ever more dreary. For Barrow’s efforts to find work for Tracy were unavailing. Always the first question…
Chapter XIV
So Tracy went home to supper. The odors in that supper room seemed more strenuous and more horrible than ever before, and he was happy in t…
Chapter XV
Tracy went to bed happy once more, at rest in his mind once more. He had started out on a high emprise—that was to his credit, he argued; h…
Chapter XVI
Brady arrived with a box, and departed, after saying, “They’re finishing one up, but they’ll be along as soon as it’s done.” Barrow took a…
Chapter XVII
The moment Tracy was alone his spirits vanished away, and all the misery of his situation was manifest to him. To be moneyless and an objec…
Chapter XVIII
Washington shuddered slightly at the suggestion, then his face took on a dreamy look and he dropped into a trance of thought. After a littl…
Chapter XIX
Meantime the earl and Hawkins were holding a troubled and anxious private consultation. The earl said: “The mystery that bothers me, is, wh…
Chapter XX
Tracy made slow progress with his work, for his mind wandered a good deal. Many things were puzzling him. Finally a light burst upon him al…
Chapter XXI
She had made everything comfortable for the artist; there was no further pretext for staying. So she said she would go, now, and asked him…
Chapter XXII
Five minutes later he was sitting in his room, with his head bowed within the circle of his arms, on the table—final attitude of grief and…
Chapter XXIII
Tracy wrote his father before he sought his bed. He wrote a letter which he believed would get better treatment than his cablegram received…
Chapter XXIV
Next day, sure enough, the cablegram didn’t come. This was an immense disaster; for Tracy couldn’t go into the presence without that ticket…
Chapter XXV
Hawkins went straight to the telegraph office and disburdened his conscience. He said to himself, “She’s not going to give this galvanized…
Appendix
Weather for Use in This Book Selected from the Best Authorities. A brief though violent thunderstorm which had raged over the city was pass…