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FORGOTTEN GOLD
Maxwell Grant
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? CHAPTER I. FORGOTTEN GOLD
? CHAPTER II. THE MEN FROM THE SWAMP
? CHAPTER III. DEATH TURNS ABOUT
? CHAPTER IV. THE LOST SHAFT
? CHAPTER V. GOLD FOR SALE
? CHAPTER VI. TRICK FOR TRICK
? CHAPTER VII. STROKES IN THE DARK
? CHAPTER VIII. THE HIDDEN TRAIL
? CHAPTER IX. WORD FROM THE MINE
? CHAPTER X. CROOKS CONFER
? CHAPTER XI. THE OLD PROFESSOR
? CHAPTER XII. ZERN'S STROKE
? CHAPTER XIII. A QUESTION OF EVIDENCE
? CHAPTER XIV. THE DAY IN COURT
? CHAPTER XV. MURDER BY DAY
? CHAPTER XVI. VENGEANCE TO COME
? CHAPTER XVII. TRAILS IN THE DARK
? CHAPTER XVIII. THE WAY BELOW
? CHAPTER XIX. RAIDERS BY NIGHT
? CHAPTER XX. CRIME'S ZENITH
? CHAPTER XXI. THE LAST STROKE
? CHAPTER XXII. THE LURE OF GOLD



CHAPTER I. FORGOTTEN GOLD
HARRY VINCENT stopped at the dilapidated railway station and sent his telegram. The old station
agent read it through a pair of horn-rimmed glasses, but offered no comment. The wire simply read:

CLYDE BURKE,
NEW YORK CLASSIC,
NEW YORK, N. Y.

WEATHER HOTTER THAN EVER.
HOPE TO LEAVE HERE BY TOMORROW.
VINCENT.
The weather was hot, as it should have been for this was Georgia in midsummer. Even the boards of the
station platform were warped by the heat, which Harry could feel through his shoe leather as he paced
outside the station agent's window. The tracks, curving off among the red-dirt hills, seemed to wiggle as
Harry watched them.

Maybe the tracks did wiggle. Remembering his trip to Hillville, over that same branch line, Harry was
inclined to such an opinion. But when he looked at the few unpainted buildings that fringed the single
track, they seemed to waver, too. High noon in Hillville, Georgia, could certainly produce enough heat