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THE WEB OF THE GOLDEN SPIDER

by

FREDERICK ORIN BARTLETT

Author of "Joan of the Alley," etc.

Illustrated by Harrison Fisher and Charles M. Relyea







[Illustration: "_With pretty art and a woman's instinctive desire to
please, she had placed the candle on a chair and assumed something of a
pose._" [Page 20]]



New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Copyright, 1909
by Small, Maynard & Company
(Incorporated)

Entered at Stationers' Hall

The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A.




  TO
  MY WIFE




CONTENTS

  CHAPTER                                                         PAGE
        I THE CLOSED DOOR OPENS                                      1
       II CHANCE PROVIDES                                           13
      III A STRANGER ARRIVES                                        28
       IV THE GOLDEN GOD SPEAKS                                     40
        V IN THE DARK                                               53
       VI BLIND MAN'S BUFF                                          63
      VII THE GAME CONTINUES                                        75
     VIII OF GOLD AND JEWELS LONG HIDDEN                            89
       IX A STERN CHASE                                            100
        X STRANGE FISHING                                          113
       XI WHAT WAS CAUGHT                                          124
      XII OF LOVE AND QUEENS                                       136
     XIII OF POWDER AND BULLETS