Front matter

BY

FRANCIS LYNDE

ILLUSTRATED BY E. ROSCOE SHRADER

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS NEW YORK :::::::::: 1912

Copyright, 1912, by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Published October, 1912

BOOKS BY FRANCIS LYNDE

Published by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

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Where another man might have asked questions, he stood aside and looked on and listened.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Wire-Devil 3

II. High Finance in Cromarty Gulch 57

III. The Electrocution of Tunnel Number Three 120

IV. The Mystery of the Black Blight 193

V. The Cloud-Bursters 253

VI. The High Kibosh 328

ILLUSTRATIONS

Where another man might have asked questions, he stood aside and looked on and listened Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

Thanks to the man with the red lantern, there were half a dozen car-lengths to spare between the two trains when the double stop was made 18

Brushing them aside with his mighty weight or driving them before him like chaff in the fury of his onset 108

Sprague had unlimbered and focussed his camera again and was calmly taking snap-shot after snap-shot 270

Scientific Sprague