BOYS BOOKS BY FLOYD AKERS
The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska The Boy Fortune Hunters in Panama The Boy Fortune Hunters in Egypt
Cloth 12 mos. Splendidly Illustrated.
Price 60 cents each.
Copyright 1908
by
THE REILLY & BRITTON CO.
LIST OF CHAPTERS
CHAPTER PAGE [I The Runaway] 9 [II Our Venture] 21 [III An Obstinate Passenger] 47 [IV A Riot and a Rescue] 65 [V The Professor’s Secret] 76 [VI The Treasure of the Ancients] 92 [VII A Great Undertaking] 109 [VIII Gege-Merak] 119 [IX Across the Black Mountains] 135 [X Deep in the Desert Sands] 150 [XI Taking Chances] 167 [XII Abdul Hashim Explains] 183 [XIII Prisoners] 204 [XIV The Well of the Scorpions] 213 [XV Van Dorn Turns Traitor] 222 [XVI The Mad Camel] 233 [XVII Iva] 242 [XVIII Ketti Proves a Friend] 250 [XIX Lovelace Pasha] 261 [XX The Khedive Takes the Last Trick—but One] 275
CHAPTER I.
THE RUNAWAY.
I was standing on the deck of the Seagull, looking over the rail and peering into the moonlight that flooded the bay where we lay at anchor, when the soft dip of an oar caught my ear.
It was the softest dip in the world, stealthy as that of an Indian, and in the silence that reigned aboard ship I stood motionless, listening for a repetition of the sound.
It came presently—the mere rustle of the drops as they slid off the oar’s blade—and a small boat stole from the shadows astern and crept to our side.