# The Inca Emerald

Author: Scoville, Samuel, 1872-1950; Bull, Charles Livingston, 1874-1932 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Adventure

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42193

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Inca+Emerald+Scoville&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It was a bushmaster which started the Quest of the Emerald--and only a possible bushmaster at that. One May evening in Cornwall, Big Jim Donegan, the lumber-king, sat in the misty moonlight with his slippered feet on the rail of the veranda of the great house in which he lived alone. He was puffing away at a corn-cob pipe as placidly as if he did not have more millions than Cornwall has hills--which is saying something, for Cornwall has twenty-seven of the latter. Along the gravel walk, which wound its way for nearly half a mile to the entrance of the estate, came the sound of a dragging footstep. A moment later, from out of the shadows stepped a man over six feet in height, a little stoo...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-inca-emerald-42193/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-inca-emerald-42193/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-inca-emerald-42193/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-inca-emerald-42193/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-inca-emerald-42193/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-inca-emerald-42193/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-inca-emerald-42193/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-inca-emerald-42193/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-inca-emerald-42193/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-inca-emerald-42193/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-inca-emerald-42193/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-inca-emerald-42193/chapters/2/index.md)