As It Was in the Beginning

by Philip Verrill Mighels

FOR A MOMENT OR MORE THERE WAS ABSOLUTE STILLNESS
IN THAT GRASSY ARENA

AS IT WAS

IN THE

BEGINNING

BY

PHILIP VERRILL MIGHELS

Author of The Furnace of Gold and Thurley Ruxton

New York
Desmond FitzGerald, Inc.

Copyright, 1912
By DESMOND FITZGERALD, INC.
All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I.	[A TRUSTED MESSENGER]
II.	[AN UNEXPECTED OUTBURST]
III.	[A MIDNIGHT TRAGEDY]
IV.	[THE NIGHT AND MORNING]
V.	[THE ISLAND]
VI.	[VARIOUS DISCOVERIES]
VII.	[A GREWSOME GUARDIAN]
VIII.	[PRIMITIVE CONDITIONS]
IX.	[THE MOTHER OF INVENTION]
X.	[THE MASTER POACHER]
XI.	[A MYSTERY]
XII.	[AMBITIOUS PLANS]
XIII.	[A MIDNIGHT VISITOR]
XIV.	[TRUANTS OUT OF SCHOOL]
XV.	[A NIGHT IN THE JUNGLE]
XVI.	[A DEAD MAN'S SECRET]
XVII.	[FEVERISH EMPLOYMENTS HALTED]
XVIII.	[AT THE TIGER'S KILL]
XIX.	[GRENVILLE'S RADIANT STAR]
XX.	[A GIRDLE OF GOLD]
XXI.	[MOLTEN METAL AND HOPES]
XXII.	[A TOMB OF STONE]
XXIII.	[A DESPERATE CHANCE]
XXIV.	[A DREADED VISITOR]
XXV.	[AN IRREPARABLE LOSS]
XXVI.	[AFTER TO-MORROW——]
XXVII.	[A FATEFUL EXPLOSION]
XXVIII.	[WHAT THE BLAST DISCOVERED]
XXIX.	[AN INTERRUPTED DIVERSION]
XXX.	[REVEALING AN INTENT]
XXXI.	[THE SILENT VISITORS]
XXXII.	[DEATH AS A BROTHER]
XXXIII.	[THE GIRL BEHIND THE GUN]
XXXIV.	[DYAK DARTS AND METHODS]
XXXV.	[A BATTLE IN THE SMOKE]
XXXVI.	[THE LAST CUP OF WATER]
XXXVII.	[A BREATHLESS MARGIN]
XXXVIII.	[GRENVILLE'S DESPERATE CHANCE]
XXXIX.	[ADDITIONAL HEAD-HUNTERS]
XL.	[PLOT AND COUNTER PLOT]
XLI.	[A LIVING BAIT]
XLII.	[LONG HOURS OF DOUBT]
XLIII.	[THE HOUR OF CLIMAX]
XLIV.	[A LOTUS BLOSSOM]
XLV.	[THE LAST BOMB]
XLVI.	[A GIFT REFUSED]
XLVII.	[A FRIEND IN NEED]