IV. The Peacemakers 234

XXXV. Unsettled Weather 246

XXXVI. Captain's Room 252

XXXVII. Basile Uses a Cane 260

XXXVIII. The Cane Again 272

XXXIX. Fortitude 280

XL. Ramsey at the Footlights 289

XLI. Quits 299

XLII. Against Kin 306

XLIII. Which from Which 313

XLIV. Forbearance 319

XLV. Applause 327

XLVI. After the Play 331

XLVII. Insomnia 337

XLVIII. "California" 347

XLIX. Kangaroo Point 354

L. "Delta Will Do" 365

LI. Loving-Kindness 374

LII. Love Runs Rough but Runs on 383

LIII. Trading for Phyllis 393

LIV. "Can't!" 404

LV. Love Makes a Cut-Off 412

LVI. Eight Years After 425

LVII. Farewell, "Votaress" 436

LVIII. 'Lindy Lowe 443

LIX. "Conclusively" 446

LX. Once More Hugh Sings 460

LXI. Wanted, Hayle's Twins 469

LXII. Euthanasia 478

LXIII. The Captain's Chair 493

ILLUSTRATIONS

_Ramsey_ _Frontispiece_

FACING
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_"Stop!... Stop! the safest place for you on this
boat now is right where you are standing--Phyllis"_ 258

_"My heavenly Father wouldn't 'a' had to call me in
out of the storm"_ 334

_"For I believe that we belong to each other from the
centre of our souls, by a fitness plain even to the
eyes of your brothers"_ 420

GIDEON'S BAND

I

THE STEAMBOAT LEVEE

Saturday, April, 1852. There was a fervor in the sky as of an August
noon, although the clocks of the city would presently strike five.

Dazzling white clouds, about to show the earliest flush of the sun's
decline, beamed down upon a turbid river h