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CONTENTS

I.[Determined Destiny]
II.[False Colors]
III.[Rockett]
IV.[Wrecked]
V.[The Digger]
VI.[Yuma Oil]
VII.[Her Father]
VIII.[Green Stones]
IX.[Unexplained Disappearances]
X.[A Generous Offer]
XI.[The Unwilling Tourist]
XII.[The Long Shot]
XIII.[Southward Bound]
XIV.[The Castaway]
XV.[An Unexpected Vision]
XVI.[Imprisoned in Snow]
XVII.[The Glacier’s Heart]
XVIII.[Camp of the Dead]
XIX.[Resurrection]
XX.[In His Own Net]
XXI.[The Knife]
XXII.[Tronador Light]

THE GLACIER GATE
CHAPTER I
DETERMINED DESTINY

Destiny knocked at his door, but Doctor Rupert Lang was not at home. At that very moment he was talking of his destiny to Miss Eva Morrison in the glassed gallery of the Bayview Hotel, four miles out of Mobile, where they had motored for tea.

It was not the first time they had drunk tea in this spot, and they had usually come to talk of Lang’s dubious future, of what he might do with what a series of catastrophes had left him. Nervous and ill, his plans wavered. He had lately come to think of starting life afresh in a country medical practice far back up State, in the “piney woods.”

“I’m not much good at general practice,” he said. “Surgery is all I ever shone at. But up there they need doctors badly, men who can handle a big, rough practice, rough-and-ready surgery of all kinds——”

“You mean to bury yourself alive!” Eva interrupted indignantly.

He looked at her with sudden, nervous irritation. She had said the same thing before. Bury himself alive? As if he didn’t know it! But what else was left to him?