The La Chance Mine Mystery
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Jones Susan Morrow. The La Chance Mine Mystery
CHAPTER I. I COME HOME: AND THE WOLVES HOWL
CHAPTER II. MY DREAM: AND DUDLEY'S GIRL
CHAPTER III. DUDLEY'S MINE: AND DUDLEY'S GOLD
CHAPTER IV. THE MAN IN THE DARK
CHAPTER V. THE CARAQUET ROAD: AND THE WOLVES HOWL ONCE MORE
CHAPTER VI. MOSTLY WOLVES: AND A GIRL
CHAPTER VII. I FIND LITTLE ENOUGH ON THE CORDUROY ROAD, AND LESS AT SKUNK'S MISERY
CHAPTER VIII. THOMPSON!
CHAPTER IX. TATIANA PAULINA VALENKA!
CHAPTER X. I INTERFERE FOR THE LAST TIME
CHAPTER XI. MACARTNEY HEARS A NOISE: AND I FIND FOUR DEAD MEN
CHAPTER XII. THOMPSON'S CARDS: AND SKUNK'S MISERY
CHAPTER XIII. A DEAD MAN'S MESSENGER
CHAPTER XIV. WOLVES – AND DUDLEY
CHAPTER XV. THE PLACE OF DEPARTED SPIRITS
CHAPTER XVI. IN COLLINS'S CARE
CHAPTER XVII. HIGH EXPLOSIVE
CHAPTER XVIII. LAC TREMBLANT
CHAPTER XIX. SKUNK'S MISERY
CHAPTER XX. THE END
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All I could do was to stand in the living room doorway and stare at her.
Whoever she was she had good nerves, for she never even stared as women do at a strange man. I could have been no reassuring vision either, standing there in moccasined feet that had come in on her as silently as a wolf or an Indian; with dirty, frozen clothes; and a face that the Lord knows is dark and hard at its best, and must have been forbidding enough that night between dirt and fatigue. But that girl only glanced at me as quietly as if she had known I was there.
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It was the first decent thing I had heard from her, and I could have opened my mouth and cheered. But I said, "Then why's she here?"
"Just because it suits her for some reason of her own," Marcia was earnest as I had never seen her. "Nicky, I don't think she's anything in the world but some sort of an adventuress – only what I can't understand about her is what she wants of Dudley! It isn't money, for I know he's tried to make her take it, and she wouldn't. Yet I know, too, that she hadn't a cent coming up here, and she hasn't now – or even any clothes but summer things, and a blue sweater she wears all the time. She never speaks about herself, or where she comes from – "
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