The Homesteader: A Novel

  LEADING CHARACTERS

  AGNES, _Whose Eyes Were Baffling_

  JEAN BAPTISTE, _The Homesteader_

  JACK STEWART, _Agnes' Father_

  AUGUSTUS M. BARR, _an Infidel_

  ISAAC SYFE, _a Jew_

  PETER KADEN, _The Victim_

  N. JUSTINE MCCARTHY, _a Preacher_

  ORLEAN, _his Daughter, Without the Courage of Her Convictions_

  ETHEL, _her Sister, Who Was Different_

  GLAVIS, _Ethel's Husband_

  EUGENE CROOK, _a Banker_

  EPOCH THE FIRST

  THE HOMESTEADER