A BLAZING TORCH IN THE GREEK’S HAND LIT UP THE SCENE AS GUY COCKED HIS RIFLE AND AWAITED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A SHOT.

THE RIVER OF DARKNESS

By
WILLIAM MURRAY GRAYDON

Copyrighted 1890
by Frank A. Munsey

Copyrighted, 1902.
by Thompson & Thomas

Contents

CHAPTERPAGE
PROLOGUE.[5]
I.THE STOLEN DESPATCHES.[9]
II.A STRANGE MEETING.[16]
III.THE ARAB’S WARNING.[23]
IV.THE ALARM.[30]
V.THE NIGHT ON THE ROOF.[38]
VI.A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH.[44]
VII.SOLD INTO SLAVERY.[51]
VIII.THE SEPARATION.[57]
IX.A CLOSE SHAVE.[62]
X.THE SLAVE PRISON.[68]
XI.CANARIS UNFOLDS A TALE.[76]
XII.A DARING MOVE.[83]
XIII.THE FLIGHT THROUGH THE TOWN.[91]
XIV.OVER THE WALLS.[99]
XV.THE PURSUIT.[106]
XVI.BESIEGED.[113]
XVII.A CLOSE SHAVE.[120]
XVIII.THE UNDERGROUND RIVER.[127]
XIX.A DARING EXPEDITION.[135]
XX.BY A HAIR’S BREADTH.[142]
XXI.CUT OFF FROM THE OUTER WORLD.[150]
XXII.AN UNWELCOME VISITOR.[158]
XXIII.A WONDERFUL ESCAPE.[165]
XXIV.SIR ARTHUR WAKES AT THE RIGHT TIME.[172]
XXV.THE JOURNEY ON THE LAKE.[179]
XXVI.THE ISLE OF SKELETONS.[187]
XXVII.ALL HOPE VANISHES.[195]
XXVIII.A DESPERATE FIGHT.[203]
XXIX.GUY SAVES SIR ARTHUR.[210]
XXX.A STRANGE DISCOVERY.[217]
XXXI.A TERRIBLE BLUNDER.[224]
XXXII.GOOD-BY TO THE LAKE.[232]
XXXIII.A TERRIBLE RIDE.[239]
XXXIV.MORE MISERY.[247]
XXXV.BILDAD DRINKS NEW LIFE.[255]
XXXVI.BILDAD TURNS CANNIBAL.[262]
XXXVII.THE END OF THE CAVERN.[270]
XXXVIII.CAPTAIN BECKER LOSES A WAGER.[278]
XXXIX.CONCLUSION.[285]