The Furnace of Gold

About this eBook

Author

Mighels, Philip Verrill, 1869-1911

Credits

Produced by Al Haines

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Nevada -- Fiction

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Text

eBook-No.

16629

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16629

Release Date

August 31, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Furnace of Gold — By
2. 2.PHILIP VERRILL MIGHELS — Author of THE PILLARS OF EDEN, BRUVVER JIM'S BABY, ETC — Illustrations by — J. N. MARCHAND — GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers :: New York — CONTENTS — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — He Proceeded to Pan from a Dozen Different Places in the Cove . . . . Frontispiece [missing from book] — His Hold Was Giving Way — The Angry Miner Lurching in Closer to Shoot [missing from book] — "Don't You Want to Give This Man a Chance?" — Beth Felt Her Heart Begin New Gymnastics [missing from book] — No Corpse Snatched from Its Grave Could Have Been More Helplessly Inert — "Yesh, He's Broke the Law" — Till the Mechanism Burst, He would Chase His Man Across the Desert [missing from book] — THE FURNACE OF GOLD — CHAPTER I
3. 3.PRINCE OR BANDIT
4. 4.CHAPTER II — INTO THE MOUNTAINS
5. 5.CHAPTER III — A RESCUE — [Illustration: His hold was giving way.]
6. 6.CHAPTER IV — CONGENIAL COMPANY
7. 7.CHAPTER V — VAN'S PARTNERS
8. 8.CHAPTER VI — THE BATTLE
9. 9.CHAPTER VII — AN EXCHANGE OF QUESTIONS
10. 10.CHAPTER VIII — A NIGHT'S EXPENSES
11. 11.CHAPTER IX — PROGRESS AND SALT
12. 12.CHAPTER X — THE LAUGHING WATER CLAIM
13. 13.CHAPTER XI — ALGY STIRS UP TROUBLE
14. 14.CHAPTER XII — BOSTWICK LOSES GROUND
15. 15.CHAPTER XIII — A COMBINATION OF FORCES
16. 16.CHAPTER XIV — MOVING A SHACK
17. 17.CHAPTER XV — HATCHING A PLOT
18. 18.CHAPTER XVI — INVOLVING BETH
19. 19.CHAPTER XVII — UNEXPECTED COMPLICATIONS
20. 20.CHAPTER XVIII — WHEREIN MATTERS THICKEN
21. 21.CHAPTER XIX — VAN AND BETH AND BOSTWICK
22. 22.CHAPTER XX — QUEENIE
23. 23.CHAPTER XXI — IN THE SHADOW OF THE ROPE — [Illustration: "Don't you want to give this man a chance?"]
24. 24.CHAPTER XXII — TWO MEETINGS AFTER DARK
25. 25.CHAPTER XXIII — BETH'S DESPERATION
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIV — A BLIZZARD OF DUST
27. 27.CHAPTER XXV — A TIMELY DELIVERANCE
28. 28.CHAPTER XXVI — THE NIGHT IN THE DESERT
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVII — TALL STORIES
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVIII — WORK AND SONG
31. 31.CHAPTER XXIX — SUSPICIOUS ANSWERS
32. 32.CHAPTER XXX — BETH'S ONE EXPEDIENT
33. 33.CHAPTER XXXI — MCCOPPET BUSIES HIS MIND
34. 34.CHAPTER XXXII — THE HARDSHIPS OF THE TRAIL
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXIII — THE CLOUDS OF TROUBLE GATHER
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXIV — THE TAKING OF THE CLAIM
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXV — THE MEETINGS OF TWO STRONG MEN — [Illustration: No corpse snatched from its grave could have been more helplessly inert.]
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXVI — VAN RUNS AMUCK
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXVII — THE PRIMITIVE LAW — [Illustration: "Yesh—he's broke the law."]
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXVIII — BETH MAKES DEMANDS
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXIX — ALGY'S COOKING AND BETH'S DESPAIR
42. 42.CHAPTER XL — GLEN AND REVELATIONS
43. 43.CHAPTER XLI — SUVY PROVES HIS LOVE
44. 44.CHAPTER XLII — THE FURNACE OF GOLD
45. 45.CHAPTER XLIII — PREPARING THE NET FOR A DRAW
46. 46.CHAPTER XLIV — THE ENGINES OF CLIMAX
47. 47.CHAPTER XLV — THE LAST CIGARS
48. 48.CHAPTER XLVI — WASTED TIME
49. 49.CHAPTER XLVII — A TRIBUTE TO THE DESERT

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