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1One morning, in the fall of 1880, a middle-aged woman, accompanied2The spirit of Jennie--who shall express it? This daughter of3The junior Senator, George Sylvester Brander, was a man of peculiar4The desire to flee which Jennie experienced upon seeing the Senator5Having been led by circumstances into an attitude of obligation6The father of this unfortunate family, William Gerhardt, was a man7Gerhardt was in despair; he did not know any one to whom he could8The significance of the material and spiritual changes which9Jennie took the paper with but ill-concealed trembling and went10The world into which Jennie was thus unduly thrust forth was that11The incidents of the days that followed, relating as they did12Bass was no sooner in Cleveland than the marvel of that growing13Bass met Jennie at the depot in Cleveland and talked hopefully of14The days spent in the employ of the Bracebridge household were of a15The return of Gerhardt brought forward the child question in all16During the remainder of Gerhardt's stay he was shy in Jennie's17The shock of this sudden encounter was so great to Jennie that she18Jennie was now going through the agony of one who has a varied and19The inconclusive nature of this interview, exciting as it was, did20As Lester came down-stairs after making his toilet he found his21The arrival of this letter, coming after a week of silence and22The fatal Friday came, and Jennie stood face to face with this new23The business of arranging for this sudden departure was really not24The problem of the Gerhardt family and its relationship to himself25A month later Jennie was able to announce that Lester intended to26It would be useless to chronicle the events of the three years that27For three years now Lester had been happy in the companionship of28During the three years in which Jennie and Lester had been29The reason why Jennie had been called was nothing more than one of30The sullen, philosophic Lester was not so determined upon his31There was peace and quiet for some time after this storm. Jennie32The following spring the show-rooms and warehouse were completed,33Outraged in her family pride, Louise lost no time in returning to34In this world of ours the activities of animal life seem to be35In the meantime Jennie had been going through a moral crisis of her36The trouble with Jennie's plan was that it did not definitely take37The plan for a residence in Hyde Park was not long in taking shape.38Gerhardt, having become an inmate of the Hyde Park home, at once39During this period the dissatisfaction of the Kane family with40Lester returned to Chicago. He realized that he had offended his41But worse was to follow. The American public likes gossip about42The fact that Lester had seen this page was made perfectly clear to43S. and M. S., in open market, were worth a little over one thousand44This attempt at coercion was the one thing which would definitely45For a man of Lester's years--he was now forty-six--to be46It was while traveling abroad that Lester came across, first at the47That night after dinner the music was already sounding in the48The trip home did bring another week with Mrs. Gerald, for after49Lester had been doing some pretty hard thinking, but so far he had50The peculiarity of this particular proposition was that it had the51Lester had thought of his predicament earnestly enough, and he52The fact that Gerhardt was dead made no particular difference to53The explanation which Lester had concluded to be inevitable,54The little town of Sandwood, "this side of Kenosha," as Jennie had55The social and business worlds of Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland,56It is difficult to say whether Lester might not have returned to57In the meantime Jennie was going her way, settling herself in the58Now that his engagement to Mrs. Gerald was an accomplished, fact,59This added blow from inconsiderate fortune was quite enough to60The drift of events for a period of five years carried Lester and61The days of man under the old dispensation, or, rather, according62The end came after four days during which Jennie was by his bedside
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