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Alan Sullivan. A Little Way Ahead
A Little Way Ahead
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE FIRST VISION OF FELIX
CHAPTER II. ELDORADO
CHAPTER III. BUSINESS WITH QUANTOX
CHAPTER IV. ENTER HELENA
CHAPTER V. THE WOMAN WHO UNDERSTOOD
CHAPTER VI. FELIX SETS THE BAIT
CHAPTER VII. THE TRAP SNAPS
CHAPTER VIII. A NEW NAPOLEON
CHAPTER IX. THE SQUEEZE
CHAPTER X. IN HONDURAS
CHAPTER XI. LONDON POOL
CHAPTER XII. THE LAST VISION OF FELIX
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Alan Sullivan
Published by Good Press, 2022
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In exactly three days they jumped. Cable advices from Canada stated that on the company’s mining concession there had been discovered a silver-bearing lode that ran eight thousand ounces a ton. The deposit was a nature-made mint of apparently great depth. Thus ran the opinion of a well-known mining engineer.
Felix, with his tongue in his cheek, gave an order to sell at forty-two bob. He had reasons for this, being naturally sceptical about mines, and remembering that such undertakings have been described as “a hole in the ground with a liar on top.” So he did not worry when, after he sold, the shares climbed to fifty shillings. But he did smile when a month later the mint was proved to be a surface deposit only.
