One: The Light Over the Ranges List of episodes in Against the Day

1 one: light on ranges

1.1 episode 1 (pages 2-9)
1.2 episode 2 (pages 10-20)
1.3 episode 3
1.4 episode 4
1.5 episode 5
1.6 episode 6
1.7 episode 7
1.8 episode 8
1.9 episode 9
1.10 episode 10

one: light on ranges
episode 1 (pages 2-9)

the chums of chance, five-member crew of hydrogen skyship inconvenience sails 1893 chicago world s fair. composing crew randolph st. cosmo, ship commander; darby suckling, baby of crew serves both factotum , mascot; lindsay noseworth, second-in-command , master-at-arms; miles blundell, handyman apprentice; , chick counterfly, newest member of crew. present pugnax, literate dog of no particular breed reading henry james s princess casamassima, book rise of world anarchism.

episode 2 (pages 10-20)

having crashed on landing, chums of chance arrive @ fair.

episode 3

lindsay , miles enter world s fair through alternative gate , confronted spectacle of unsavory acts , exhibits on fringe of fair. miles, in act of divination, wins ten dollars @ game of three-card monte.

meanwhile, randolph st. cosmo agrees contract services of chums of chance , inconvenience white city detectives purposes of surveillance.

episode 4

the chums meet photographer (merle rideout) , attired model (chevrolette mcadoo), seems have stepped out of ladies magazine. chums meet professor heino vanderjuice of yale, seen bargaining evil force celebrated mogul scarsdale vibe. on vibe s way lobby, elderly woman, respectably though not sumptuously dressed, approached him, crying,

if mother have strangled in cradle.

episode 5

lew basnight, wasn t sure anarchists are, recruited chums.

episode 6

merle rideout s history dahlia. merle , dally drift town town, , merle s talents photography , alchemy emerge.

episode 7

webb traverse introduced meeting merle. discuss equivalent of philosopher s stone explosives.

episode 8

on fourth of july, webb , vodka drinking finnish friend veikko set blow railway bridge in colorado. veikko isn t fan of russian tsar s regime compares american capitalism. webb dislikes treatment of mine workers , plans blow passing train, hoping kill mine manager or two.

episode 9

kit traverse in colorado springs working dr. tesla on 1 of latest projects. kit , sidekick jack gigg meet foley walker persuades kit attend yale full funding provided scarsdale vibe. find out walker paid replace vibe in civil war conscription , shot , wounded. foley , scarsdale later became friends , known twin vibes .

episode 10

now 1899, chums receive telephone call instructions head southwest , await course correction via airship s new tesla device (or radio). inconvenience sails on several unknown , sparsely populated islands, work details can observed deck, until setting down on island called st. masque, last island take on perishable supplies. chums receive assignment extended radio communiques, arriving @ volcano antipodal colorado springs, observe happen there during dr. tesla s experiments in colorado. waiting experiment, chums begin quarrelsome debate on replacement figurehead should (having lost previous 1 of president mckinley s head in collision chicago skyscraper). on eve of fourth of july chums treated mandatory fireworks display, after tesla s experiment commences. after boys make observations, ready leave, resolving figurehead dispute in meantime, settling on draped female personage, perhaps more maternal erotic. noseworth reminds them should learn lesson dispute, namely develop protocols against secularity.

the upper hierarchy sends new assignment chums through special japanese oyster (which uses crystals of iceland spar separate rays of light ordinary , extraordinary beams). message told them intercept schooner Étienne-louis malus , attempt persuade commander abandon expedition, led dr. alden vormance. reach ship quickly, chums traverse hollow earth, entering portal in antarctica. while nearing northern exit point, receive distress signal indigenous population, wearing blue pointed hats, claiming under attack horde of hostile gnomes. chums stay day , night. helping fight against legion of gnomes , narrowly escape through ever-shrinking northern portal.