GROSSET & DUNLAP, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK

Copyright, 1925, by
GROSSET & DUNLAP
Don Sturdy in the Tombs of Gold

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I A Call For Help[ 1]
II Like a Voice From the Grave [ 10]
III Off For Egypt[ 18]
IV A Pair Of Scoundrels[ 27]
V A Villainous Plot[ 36]
VI The Fight In the Dark[ 46]
VII On the Trail[ 63]
VIII A Land Of Wonders[ 77]
IX Startling News[ 86]
X In Great Danger[ 95]
XI A Dash For Liberty[ 103]
XII The Night Prowler[ 115]
XIII A Deadly Menace[ 127]
XIV In Utter Darkness[ 138]
XV A Frightful Apparition[ 144]
XVI In the Grip Of Doom[ 149]
XVII Trapped[ 155]
XVIII A Night Of Horror[ 162]
XIX The Man By the Stream[ 168]
XX A Joyful Reunion[ 177]
XXI In the Labyrinth[ 182]
XXII A Bewildering Experience[ 188]
XXIII Riches Beyond Price[ 193]
XXIV The Sleepwalker[ 198]
XXV Victory Against Odds[ 207]

DON STURDY IN THE
TOMBS OF GOLD

CHAPTER I
A Call for Help

“Then, you think Dad really went to Egypt?” asked Don Sturdy, with deep anxiety in his tone, as he stood beside the desk where his uncle, Professor Bruce, was carefully looking over a mass of papers.

“I’m inclined to think so, my boy,” replied the professor, as he sat back in his chair and ran his fingers through his hair. “Everything seems to point that way, though we haven’t a bit of positive proof. But we know, at least, that the idea of going there was in his mind when he rushed out of Clifton’s house in Brazil shouting that he must go to Egypt.”

“Still, that may have been the mere whim of a deranged mind, forgotten almost as soon as the words were spoken,” put in Captain Frank Sturdy, another of Don’s uncles, as he turned from the window through which he had been looking.

“True enough,” assented the professor. “But we know from what Ruth told us that for weeks he had been talking about the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It was, I believe, a fixed idea that had taken possession of him. And these papers I’ve been looking over explain why he was so deeply interested in that country.”