Chapter 1 The Magnet Attracting-a Waif Amid Forces 1
Chapter 2 What Poverty Threatened—of Granite and Brass 8
Chapter 3 Wee Question of Fortune—Four-Fifty a Week 13
Chapter 4 The Spendings of Fancy—Facts Answer with Sneers 22
Chapter 5 A Glittering Night Flower—the Use of a Name 32
Chapter 6 The Machine and the Maiden—a Knight of To-day 38
Chapter 7 The Lure of the Material—Beauty Speaks for Itself 48
Chapter 8 Intimations by Winter—an Ambassador Summoned 57
Chapter 9 Convention's Own Tinder—Box—the Eye That Is Green 64
Chapter 10 The Counsel of Winter—Fortune's Ambassador Calls 70
Chapter 11 The Persuasion of Fashion—Feeling Guards o'er Its Own 77
Chapter 12 Of the Lamps of the Mansions—the Ambassador Plea 85
Chapter 13 His Credentials Accepted—a Babel of Tongues 93
Chapter 14 With Eyes and Not Seeing—One Influence Wanes 100
Chapter 15 The Irk of the Old Ties—the Magic of Youth 106
Chapter 16 A Witless Aladdin—the Gate to the World 116
Chapter 17 A Glimpse through the Gateway—Hope Lightens the Eye 123
Chapter 18 Just Over the Border—a Hall and Farewell 130
Chapter 19 An Hour in Elfland—a Clamour Half Heard 135
Chapter 20 The Lure of the Spirit—the Flesh in Pursuit 145
Chapter 21 The Lure of the Spirit—Flesh in Pursuit 152
Chapter 22 The Blaze of the Tinder—Flesh Wars with the Flesh 156
Chapter 23 A Spirit in Travail—One Rung Put Behind 165
Chapter 24 Ashes of Tinder—a Face at the Window 175
Chapter 25 Ashes of Tinder—the Loosing of Stays 179
Chapter 26 The Ambassador Fallen—a Search for the Gate 183
Chapter 27 When Waters Engulf Us We Reach for a Star 192
Chapter 28 A Pilgrim,an Outlaw—the Spirit Detained 201
Chapter 29 The Solace of Travel—the Boats of the Sea 210
Chapter 30 The Kingdom of Greatness—the Pilgrim a Dream 221
Chapter 31 A Pet of Good Fortune—Broadway Flaunts Its Joys 227
Chapter 32 The Feast of Belshazzar—a Seer to Translate 235
Chapter 33 Without the Walled City—the Slope of the Years 246
Chapter 34 The Grind of the Millstones—a Sample of Chaff 253
Chapter 35 The Passinqg of Effort—the Visage of Care 261
Chapter 36 A Grim Retrogression—the Phantom of Chance 275
Chapter 37 The Spirit Awakens—New Search for the Gate 278
Chapter 38 In Elf Land Disporting—the Grim World without 285
Chapter 39 Of Lights and of Shadows—the Parting of Worlds 293
Chapter 40 A Public Dissension—a Final Appeal 303
Chapter 41 The Strike 310
Chapter 42 A Touch of Spring—the Empty Shell 323
Chapter 43 The World Turns Flatterer—an Eye in the Dark 331
Chapter 44 And This Is Not Elfland—What Gold Will Not Buy 338
Chapter 45 Curious Shifts of the Poor 346
Chapter 46 Stiring Troubled Waters 358
Chapter 47 The Way of the Beaten—a Harp in the Wind 368