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A Mystery Story for Boys
The Rope of Gold
By
ROY J. SNELL
The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago New York
Printed in the United States of America
Copyright, 1929
by
The Reilly & Lee Co.
All Rights Reserved
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- I The Dangling Ladder 11
- II The Native Drum 27
- III The Hidden Pitfall 43
- IV He Who Walks Alone 54
- V The Giant on the Wall 67
- VI A Startling Discovery 79
- VII The Voodoo Drum 87
- VIII The Yellow Snake’s Teeth 98
- IX The Jeweled Monkey 111
- X Stowaways 126
- XI The Drums 141
- XII Curlie Gets Their Goat 148
- XIII Crusoes For a Night 168
- XIV The Marine King 178
- XV Dreams 186
- XVI The Call of the Drums 191
- XVII The White Shadow 198
- XVIII The Magic Telescope 210
- XIX An Ape-Like Band 220
- XX The Chest of Secrets 228
- XXI Johnny’s Mission 241
- XXII The Queen’s Ruby 249
- XXIII The Battling Giant 258
- XXIV The Story Is Told 266
- XXV The March of Triumph 272
THE ROPE OF GOLD
CHAPTER I
THE DANGLING LADDER
Night was settling down over the mountainside. Already the valleys far belowwere lost in darkness. The massive fortresswhich the dwellers on the island of Haiti havealways called the Citadel hung like a mountaincliff above a boy who, hot from climbing, hadthrown himself on a bed of moss at the foot of agnarled mahogany tree.
“Whew!” he exclaimed softly to himself.“Even three thousand feet abov