BOOKS BY FRANCIS LYNDE
Published by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
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Where another man might have asked questions, he stood aside
and looked on and listened.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.The Wire-Devil[3]
II.High Finance in Cromarty Gulch[57]
III.The Electrocution of Tunnel Number
Three
[120]
IV.The Mystery of the Black Blight[193]
V.The Cloud-Bursters[253]
VI.The High Kibosh[328]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Where another man might have asked questions, he
stood aside and looked on and listened
[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
Thanks to the man with the red lantern, there were
half a dozen car-lengths to spare between the two
trains when the double stop was made
[18]
Brushing them aside with his mighty weight or driving
them before him like chaff in the fury of his onset
[108]
Sprague had unlimbered and focussed his camera again
and was calmly taking snap-shot after snap-shot
[270]

Scientific Sprague

I
The Wire-Devil