I. | Masked Batteries | 1 |
II. | The Fate of the Immigrant | 11 |
III. | "And who is my Neighbor?" | 20 |
IV. | Family Trees | 23 |
V. | A Maiden who will not Marry | 34 |
VI. | Lost Opportunities | 41 |
VII. | Was it Honore Grandissime? | 46 |
VIII. | Signed--Honore Grandissime | 55 |
IX. | Illustrating the Tractive Power of Basil | 58 |
X. | "Oo dad is, 'Sieur Frowenfel'?" | 67 |
XI. | Sudden Flashes of Light | 72 |
XII. | The Philosophe | 76 |
XIII. | A Call from the Rent-Spectre | 83 |
XIV. | Before Sunset | 94 |
XV. | Rolled in the Dust | 104 |
XVI. | Starlight in the rue Chartres | 123 |
XVII. | That Night | 128 |
XVIII. | New Light upon Dark Places | 143 |
XIX. | Art and Commerce | 156 |
XX. | A very Natural Mistake | 166 |
XXI. | Doctor Keene Recovers his Bullet | 177 |
XXII. | Wars within the Breast | 181 |
XXIII. | Frowenfeld Keeps his Appointment | 187 |
XXIV. | Frowenfeld Makes an Argument | 192 |
XXV. | Aurora as a Historian | 204 |
XXVI. | A Ride and a Rescue | 208 |
XXVII. | The Fete de Grandpere | 221 |
XXVIII. | The Story of Bras-Coupe | 240 |
XXIX. | The Story of Bras-Coupe, Continued | 262 |
XXX. | Paralysis | 281 |
XXXI. | Another Wound in a New Place | 288 |
XXXII. | Interrupted Preliminaries | 293 |
XXXIII. | Unkindest Cut of All | 296 |
XXXIV. | Clotilde as a Surgeon | 299 |
XXXV. | "Fo' wad you Cryne?" | 305 |
XXXVI. | Aurora's Last Picayune | 310 |
XXXVII. | Honore Makes some Confessions | 316 |
XXXVIII. | Tests of Friendship | 325 |
XXXIX. | Louisiana States her Wants | 337 |
XL. | Frowenfeld Finds Sylvestre | 343 |
XLI. | To Come to the Point | 352 |
XLII. | An Inheritance of Wrong | 361 |
XLIII. | The Eagle Visits the Doves in their Nest | 369 |
XLIV. | Bad for Charlie Keene | 384 |
XLV. | More Reparation | 386 |
XLVI. | The Pique-en-terre Loses One of her Crew | 390 |
XLVII. | The News | 401 |
XLVIII. | An Indignant Family and a Smashed Shop | 403 |
XLIX. | Over the New Store | 414 |
L. | A Proposal of Marriage | 419 |
LI. | Business Changes | 426 |
LII. | Love Lies-a-Bleeding | 431 |
LIII. | Frowenfeld at the Grandissime Mansion | 438 |
LIV. | "Cauldron Bubble" | 446 |
LV. | Caught | 449 |
LVI. | Blood for a Blow | 457 |
LVII. | Voudou Cured | 464 |
LVIII. | Dying Words | 470 |
LIX. | Where some Creole Money Goes | 477 |
LX. | "All Right" | 481 |
LXI. | "No!" | 486 |
| Photogravures | |
| "They paused a little within the obscurity of the corridor, and just to reassure themselves that everything was 'all right'" | |
| "She looked upon an unmasked, noble countenance, lifted her own mask a little, and then a little more; and then shut it quickly" | 10 |
| "The daughter of the Natchez sitting in majesty, clothed in many-colored robes of shining feathers crossed and recrossed with girdles of serpent-skins and of wampum" | 11 |
| "Aurora,--alas! alas!--went down upon her knees with her gaze fixed upon the candle's flame" | 102 |
| "The young man with auburn curls rested the edge of his burden upon the counter, tore away its wrappings and disclosed a painting" | 103 |