CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.[Queer Actions]1
II.[A Town Gone Mad]12
III.[Disappointment]22
IV.[An Unexpected Interruption]32
V.[Noddy Nixon Threatens]41
VI.[Forming the Syndicate]49
VII.[A Night Chase]56
VIII.[Marooned]63
IX.[Noddy Packs Up]75
X.[An Airship Flight]84
XI.[Off for the Border]92
XII.[The Professor is Missing]99
XIII.[A Suspicious Character]107
XIV.[In Kabspell]117
XV.[Off in the Motorship]125
XVI.[A Frightened Settlement]133
XVII.[The Blackfeet]140
XVIII.[Bear Steaks]147
XIX.[On Guard]154
XX.[A Night Attack]164
XXI.[Into the Depths]170
XXII.[A Disappointed Professor]177
XXIII.[Watched]184
XXIV.[The Luminous Snakes]190
XXV.[The Hidden Man]196
XXVI.[The Empty Pocket]204
XXVII.[A Perilous Search]211
XXVIII.[The Sixty Nuggets]217
XXIX.[International Complications]225
XXX.[A Flight by Night]239

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[THERE STALKED INTO THE CLEARING A NUMBER OF INDIANS.]
[“CAN WE GO?” BURST OUT NED.]
[LYING AT FULL LENGTH ON THE GROUND, WAS PROFESSOR SNODGRASS.]
[“THE FIRST OF THE SIXTY NUGGETS!” HE SHOUTED.]

INTRODUCTION

My Dear Boys:

When Jerry, Ned and Bob returned from an automobile ride one day, and saw a great crowd around the railroad station of their home town, they were somewhat excited. They were made more so when they saw Jim Nestor, the foreman of the mine in which they held an interest, and another Westerner, wildly digging on the tracks. And when they heard the murmurs of “gold,” they did not know what to think.

And from then on they were involved in happenings that did not cease when they set out to recover the sixty nuggets, so strangely hidden on the border. Though the gold on the railroad tracks did not amount to much, the other pocket of the precious yellow metal did, as you will learn in the pages that follow.