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Title: The Web of the Golden Spider

Author: Frederick Orin Bartlett

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Language: English

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THE WEB OF THE GOLDEN SPIDER

by

FREDERICK ORIN BARTLETT

Author of "Joan of the Alley," etc.

Illustrated by Harrison Fisher and Charles M. Relyea

[Illustration: "_With pretty art and a woman's instinctive desire to
please, she had placed the candle on a chair and assumed something of a
pose._" [Page 20]]

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Copyright, 1909
by Small, Maynard & Company
(Incorporated)

Entered at Stationers' Hall

The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A.

TO
MY WIFE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I THE CLOSED DOOR OPENS 1
II CHANCE PROVIDES 13
III A STRANGER ARRIVES 28
IV THE GOLDEN GOD SPEAKS 40
V IN THE DARK 53
VI BLIND MAN'S BUFF 63
VII THE GAME CONTINUES 75
VIII OF GOLD AND JEWELS LONG HIDDEN 89
IX A STERN CHASE 100
X STRANGE FISHING 113
XI WHAT WAS CAUGH