LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

["'No, sir,' replied Mrs. Kimball, firmly, 'I won't sign'" ]Frontispiece
["Roger held up the fish pole so that Adrian could grasp it" ]38
["Its forepaws struck the boy on the shoulders" ]76
["The Cardiff sled left the beaten road, and plunged into the almost unbroken snow of the fields" ]137
["His heart beat suddenly at the idea which came to him" ]188
["Then Roger began to raise the lead to the surface" ]191

THE WHITE CRYSTALS

CHAPTER I

THE DOCTOR'S ADVICE

Dr. Glasby looked over the rims of his spectacles at the boy before him. Then he glanced at Mr. Anderson, cleared his throat with a loud "ahem" that made Roger start, and said, very ponderously:

"Um!"