Produced by Roger Frank, Chris Curnow, Sarah Jensen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net GOLD Other Books by the Same Author The Claim Jumpers The Westerners The Blazed Trail Arizona Night Blazed Trail Stories The Cabin Camp and Trail Conjuror's House The Forest The Rules of the Game The Riverman The Silent Places The Adventures of Bobby Orde The Mountains The Pass The Magic Forest The Sign at Six The Land of Footprints African Camp Fires The Mystery (with Samuel Hopkins Adams) [Illustration: "'I TOLD YOU YOU COULDN'T LICK ME,' SAID HE"] GOLD by STEWART EDWARD WHITE Illustrated by THOMAS FOGARTY New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers Copyright, 1913, by Doubleday, Page & Company All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian CONTENTS Part I.--Panama I. Oh, Susannah! 3 II. The Hammerlock 7 III. The Voyage 19 IV. The Village by the Lagoon 28 V. A Tropical River 38 VI. The Village in the Jungle 44 VII. The Trail 56 VIII. Panama 61 IX. Northward Ho! 76 Part II.--THE GOLDEN CITY X. The Golden City 87 XI. I Make Twenty-five Dollars 101 XII. Talbot Deserts 115 XIII. Up-River 129 Part III.--THE MINES