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                             The Spoilers

                           _By_ REX E. BEACH

                       [Illustration: colophon]

                        With Four Illustrations
                       By CLARENCE F. UNDERWOOD

                    A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
                               NEW YORK.

                   Copyright, 1905, by REX E. BEACH.

                        _All rights reserved._

                        Published April, 1906.

                               THIS BOOK
                       IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED TO
                               MY MOTHER




CONTENTS


CHAP.                                                               PAGE

I. THE ENCOUNTER                                                       1

II. THE STOWAWAY                                                      13

III. IN WHICH GLENISTER ERRS                                          22

IV. THE KILLING                                                       33

V. WHEREIN A MAN APPEARS                                              48

VI. AND A MINE IS JUMPED                                              59

VII. THE “BRONCO KID’S” EAVESDROPPING                                 68

VIII. DEXTRY MAKES A CALL                                             80

IX. SLUICE ROBBERS                                                    94

X. THE WIT OF AN ADVENTURESS                                         107

XI. WHEREIN A WRIT AND A RIOT FAIL                                   120

XII. COUNTERPLOTS                                                    132

XIII. IN WHICH A MAN IS POSSESSED OF A DEVIL                         149

XIV. A MIDNIGHT MESSENGER                                            168

XV. VIGILANTES                                                       183

XVI. IN WHICH THE TRUTH BEGINS TO BARE ITSELF                        201

XVII. THE DRIP OF WATER IN THE DARK                                  