The American Claimant
diamonds in the hotel fire—The colonel secures three baskets of ashes—Mrs. Sellers forbids their lying in state—Generous hatchments—The ashes to be sent only when the earl sends for them

CHAPTER X.
Lord Berkeley deposits the $500 found in his appropriated clothes—Attends “Mechanics’ Debating Club”—Berkeley (_alias_ Tracy) is glad he came to this country

CHAPTER XI.
No work for Tracy—Cheaper lodgings secured—Sleeping on the roof—“My daughter Hattie”—Tracy receives further “impressions” from Hattie (otherwise “Puss”)—Mr. Barrow appears—And offers to help Tracy find work

CHAPTER XII.
A boarding-house dinner—“No money, no dinner” for Mr. Brady—“How did you come to mount that hat?”—A glimpse of (the supposed) one-armed Pete—Extract from Tracy’s diary

CHAPTER XIII.
Tracy and trades-unions—Unpopularity with fellow-boarders—Which changes to popularity on his punishing Allen—The cablegram

CHAPTER XIV.
“Mechanics’ Debating Club” again—Tracy is comforted by Barrow’s remarks—“Fool or _no_ fool, he would grab it”—“Earldom! oh, yes, take it if it offers"

CHAPTER XV.
“You forgot to pay your board”—“I’ve been robbed “—Mr. Allen among the missing, likewise other things—The cablegram: “Thanks”—Despair of Tracy—“You’ve got to amuse your mind"

CHAPTER XVI.
The collaborative art collection—The artists—“The cannon’s our trademark”—Tracy’s mind _is_ amused

CHAPTER XVII.
No further cablegram—“If those ghastly artists want a confederate, I’m their man”—Tracy taken into partnership—Disappointments of materialization—The phonograph adapted to marine service—Utilization of wasted sewer gas

CHAPTER XVIII.
The colonel’s project to set Russia free—“I am going to buy Siberia”—The materializee turns up—Being an artist he is invited to restore the colonel’s collection—Which he forthwith begins

CHAPTER XIX.
The perplexities and nobilities of materialization—The materializee eats a couple of apples—Horror of Hawkins and Sellers—It must be a mistake"

CHAPTER XX.
Tracy’s perplexities with regard to the Claimant’s sanity—The Claimant interviews him—Sally Sellers meets Tracy—A violent case of love at first sight—Pinks

CHAPTER XXI.
Empty painting; empty millinerizing—Tracy’s work 
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