Dead Man's Gold

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Dead Man's Gold (1920)
by J. Allan Dunn

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"He's gone!" said Healy, his voice sharp with greed and anger. "Gone—and he never told us where it was. Wasted his time talking about his fool wife and kid." [...] He watched Stone's efforts to get some liquor between the old prospector's teeth, worn and stained, but stubbornly resisting. It was ghastly work. It seemed like trying to wrest a secret from the grave, disturbing the rest that an old man longed for. Stone felt the brutality of it, but the lust of gold had entered into him as it had entered into the others. …

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DEAD
MAN'S
GOLD

J. ALLAN
DUNN

"'Swear to do your best to find the stuff, then to split half with her . . . Swear it, with your right hands on the Book.'"

DEAD MAN'S GOLD

BY
J. ALLAN DUNN

FRONTISPIECE
BY
RALPH PALLEN COLEMAN

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF
TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES
INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

TO MY FRIEND
DAVID L. EVANS

PITTSFIELD
MASSACHUSETTS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I.

Skyfields

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3

II.

A Secret in Three Parts

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13

III.

The Wisdom OF Wat Lyman

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25

IV.

Mexicali

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38

V.

Lola

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55

VI.

Diamond Dick

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72

VII.

Suspicion

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95

VIII.

In Stone Men Cañon

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107

IX.

On Mogollon Mesa

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134

X.

Peggy Furniss

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155

XI.

"Bueno"

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168

XII.

The Dry Placer

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180

XIII.

Madre d'Oro

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202

XIV.

On the Butte

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220

XV.

The End of a Chase

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238

DEAD MAN'S GOLD

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