BY
MARVIN DANA
Author of
The Woman of Orchids, A Puritan Witch,
Within the Law, etc.

FRONTISPIECE BY
J. ALLEN ST. JOHN

CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1923


Copyright
Marvin Dana
1922-1923
Published September, 1923
Copyrighted in Great Britain
Printed in the United States of America


CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
Prologue[ 1]
I Adventurers’ Pact[ 15]
II The Secretary[ 28]
III The Assembling[ 38]
IV Eve of Battle[ 48]
V The Search Begins[ 62]
VI The Sixth Sense[ 79]
VII Haphazard Questing[ 94]
VIII In the Recess[ 108]
IX The Gold Song[ 121]
X In the Wood[ 131]
XI The Shot[ 147]
XII The Secret Vault[ 166]
XIII The Clue[ 177]
XIV The Episode of the Launch[ 195]
XV The Chart[ 203]
XVI The Hold[ 219]
XVII Masters Again[ 230]
XVIII Dux Facti Femina[ 239]
XIX In the Cavern[ 257]
XX The Events of a Night[ 268]
XXI The First Pit[ 288]
XXII The Other Passage[ 303]
XXIII The Blast[ 318]
XXIV Entombed[ 332]
XXV To the Chimney[ 345]
XXVI In the Dark[ 359]