{"product_id":"2940013427280","title":"THE SPOILERS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I. THE ENCOUNTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   II. THE STOWAWAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  III. IN WHICH GLENISTER ERRS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IV. THE KILLING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    V. WHEREIN A MAN APPEARS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VI. AND A MINE IS JUMPED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VII. THE \"BRONCO KID'S\" EAVESDROPPING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VIII. DEXTRY MAKES A CALL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IX. SLUICE ROBBERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    X. THE WIT OF AN ADVENTURESS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XI. WHEREIN A WRIT AND A RIOT FAIL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XII. COUNTERPLOTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XIII. IN WHICH A MAN IS POSSESSED OF A DEVIL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIV. A MIDNIGHT MESSENGER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XV. VIGILANTES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XVI. IN WHICH THE TRUTH BEGINS TO BARE ITSELF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XVII. THE DRIP OF WATER IN THE DARK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. WHEREIN A TRAP IS BAITED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIX. DYNAMITE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XX. IN WHICH THREE GO TO THE SIGN OF THE SLED AND BUT TWO RETURN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XXI. THE HAMMER-LOCK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XXII. THE PROMISE OF DREAMS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ENCOUNTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlenister gazed out over the harbor, agleam with the lights of\u003cbr\u003eanchored ships, then up at the crenelated mountains, black against\u003cbr\u003ethe sky. He drank the cool air burdened with its taints of the\u003cbr\u003esea, while the blood of his boyhood leaped within him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh, it's fine--fine,\" he murmured, \"and this is my country--my\u003cbr\u003ecountry, after all, Dex. It's in my veins, this hunger for the\u003cbr\u003eNorth. I grow. I expand.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Careful you don't bust,\" warned Dextry. \"I've seen men get plumb\u003cbr\u003edrunk on mountain air. Don't expand too strong in one spot.\" He\u003cbr\u003ewent back abruptly to his pipe, its villanous fumes promptly\u003cbr\u003eaverting any danger of the air's too tonic quality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gad! What a smudge!\" sniffed the younger man. \"You ought to be in\u003cbr\u003equarantine.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I'd ruther smell like a man than talk like a kid. You desecrate\u003cbr\u003ethe hour of meditation with rhapsodies on nature when your\u003cbr\u003eaesthetics ain't honed up to the beauties of good tobacco.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe other laughed, inflating his deep chest. In the gloom he\u003cbr\u003estretched his muscles restlessly, as though an excess of vigor\u003cbr\u003efilled him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey were lounging upon the dock, while before them lay the Santa\u003cbr\u003eMaria ready for her midnight sailing. Behind slept Unalaska,\u003cbr\u003equaint, antique, and Russian, rusting amid the fogs of Bering Sea.\u003cbr\u003eWhere, a week before, mild-eyed natives had dried their cod among\u003cbr\u003ethe old bronze cannon, now a frenzied horde of gold-seekers paused\u003cbr\u003ein their rush to the new El Dorado. They had come like a locust\u003cbr\u003ecloud, thousands strong, settling on the edge of the Smoky Sea,\u003cbr\u003ewaiting the going of the ice that barred them from their Golden\u003cbr\u003eFleece--from Nome the new, where men found fortune in a night.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe mossy hills back of the village were ridged with graves of\u003cbr\u003ethose who had died on the out-trip the fall before, when a plague\u003cbr\u003ehad gripped the land--but what of that? Gold glittered in the\u003cbr\u003esands, so said the survivors; therefore men came in armies.\u003cbr\u003eGlenister and Dextry had left Nome the autumn previous, the young\u003cbr\u003eman raving with fever. Now they returned to their own land.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145639477488,"sku":"2940013427280","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013427280_p0.jpg?v=1763581175","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013427280","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}