Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
Mr. Jack Fleming stopped suddenly before a lifeless and decaying redwood-tree with an expression of disgust and impatience. It was the very tree he had passed only an hour before, and he now knew he had been describing that mysterious and hopeless circle familiar enough to tho...
Mr. Jack Fleming stopped suddenly before a lifeless and decaying redwood-tree with an expression of disgust and impatience. It was the very tree he had passed only an hour befor...
2. Chapter 2Mr. Jack Fleming was indeed “not much of a miner.” He and his partners--both as young, hopeful, and inefficient as himself--had for three months worked a claim in a mountain min...
3. Chapter 3The intruder in his sanctum was his foreman. He was also acting as pressman, as might be seen from his shirt-sleeves spattered with ink, rolled up over the arm that had just bee...
4. Chapter 4The next afternoon he went to the fonda. Situated on the outskirts of the town which had long outgrown it, it still bore traces of its former importance as a hacienda, or smalle...