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THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM

BY RAY CUMMINGS


TO
MY FRIEND AND MENTOR
ROBERT H. DAVIS
WITH GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
HIS ENCOURAGEMENT AND PRACTICAL
ASSISTANCE TO WHICH I OWE MY
INITIAL SUCCESS


CONTENTS

[CHAPTER I. A Universe in an Atom]
[CHAPTER II. Into the Ring]
[CHAPTER III. After Forty-eight Hours]
[CHAPTER IV. Lylda]
[CHAPTER V. The World in the Ring]
[CHAPTER VI. Strategy and Kisses]
[CHAPTER VII. A Modern Gulliver]
[CHAPTER VIII. "I Must Go Back"]
[CHAPTER IX. After Five Years]
[CHAPTER X. Testing the Drugs]
[CHAPTER XI. The Escape of the Drug]
[CHAPTER XII. The Start]
[CHAPTER XIII. Perilous Ways]
[CHAPTER XIV. Strange Experiences]
[CHAPTER XV. The Valley of the Scratch]
[CHAPTER XVI. The Pit of Darkness]
[CHAPTER XVII. The Welcome of the Master]
[CHAPTER XVIII. The Chemist and His Son]
[CHAPTER XIX. The City of Arite]
[CHAPTER XX. The World of the Ring]
[CHAPTER XXI. A Life Worth Living]
[CHAPTER XXII. The Trial]
[CHAPTER XXIII. Lylda's Plan]
[CHAPTER XXIV. Lylda Acts]
[CHAPTER XXV. The Escape of Targo]
[CHAPTER XXVI. The Abduction]
[CHAPTER XXVII. Aura]
[CHAPTER XXVIII. The Attack on the Palace]
[CHAPTER XXIX. On the Lake]
[CHAPTER XXX. Word Music]
[CHAPTER XXXI. The Palace of Orlog]
[CHAPTER XXXII. An Ant-hill Outraged]
[CHAPTER XXXIII. The Rescue of Loto]
[CHAPTER XXXIV. The Decision]
[CHAPTER XXXV. Good-bye to Arite]
[CHAPTER XXXVI. The Fight in the Tunnels]
[CHAPTER XXXVII. A Combat of Titans]
[CHAPTER XXXVIII. Lost in Size]
[CHAPTER XXXIX. A Modern Dinosaur]
[CHAPTER XL. The Adventurers' Return]
[CHAPTER XLI. The First Christmas]