Corner Lots

CHAPTER VI. Little Katy's Lover

CHAPTER VII. Catching and Getting Caught

CHAPTER VIII. Isabel Marlay

CHAPTER IX. Lovers and Lovers

CHAPTER X. Plausaby, Esq., takes a Fatherly Interest

CHAPTER XI. About Several Things

CHAPTER XII. An Adventure

CHAPTER XIII. A Shelter

CHAPTER XIV. The Inhabitant

CHAPTER XV. An Episode

CHAPTER XVI. The Return

CHAPTER XVII. Sawney and his Old Love

CHAPTER XVIII. A Collision

CHAPTER XIX. Standing Guard in Vain

CHAPTER XX. Sawney and Westcott

CHAPTER XXI. Rowing

CHAPTER XXII. Sailing

CHAPTER XXIII. Sinking

CHAPTER XXIV. Dragging

CHAPTER XXV. Afterwards

CHAPTER XXVI. The Mystery

CHAPTER XXVII. The Arrest

CHAPTER XXVIII. The Tempter

CHAPTER XXIX. The Trial

CHAPTER XXX. The Penitentiary

CHAPTER XXXI. Mr. Lurton

CHAPTER XXXII. A Confession

CHAPTER XXXIII. Death

CHAPTER XXXIV. Mr. Lurton's Courtship

CHAPTER XXXV. Unbarred

CHAPTER XXXVI. Isabel

CHAPTER XXXVII. The Last

WORDS AFTERWARDS

ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRANK BEARD

The Superior Being

Mr. Minorkey and the Fat Gentleman

Plausaby sells Lots

"By George! He! he! he!"

Mrs. Plausaby

The Inhabitant

A Pinch of Snuff

Mrs. Ferret

One Savage Blow full in the Face

"What on Airth's the Matter?"

His Unselfish Love found a Melancholy Recompense

The Editor of "The Windmill"

"Git up and Foller!"

THE MYSTERY OF METROPOLISVILLE.

WORDS BEFOREHAND.

Metropolisville is nothing but a memory now. If Jonah's gourd had not
been a little too much used already, it would serve an excellent turn
just here in the way of an apt figure of speech illustrating the growth,
the wilting, and the withering of Metropolisville. The last time I saw
the place the grass grew green where once stood the City Hall, the
corn-stalks waved their banners on the very site of the old store--I ask
pardon, the "Emporium"--of Jackson, Jones & Co., and what had been the
square, staring white court-house--not a Temple but a Barn of
Justice--had long since fallen to base uses. The walls which had echoed
with forensic grandiloquence were now forced to hear only the bleating of
silly sheep. The church, the school-house, and the City Hotel had been
moved away bodily. The village grew, as hu