T 124
XII OF LOVE AND QUEENS 136
XIII OF POWDER AND BULLETS 149
XIV IN THE SHADOW OF THE ANDES 164
XV GOOD NEWS AND BAD 172
XVI THE PRIEST TAKES A HAND 185
XVII 'TWIXT CUP AND LIP 200
XVIII BLIND ALLEYS 214
XIX THE SPIDER AND THE FLY 225
XX IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF QUESADA 237
XXI THE HIDDEN CAVE 253
XXII THE TASTE OF ROPE 265
XXIII THE SPIDER SNAPS 274
XXIV THOSE IN THE HUT 286
XXV WHAT THE STARS SAW 296
XXVI A LUCKY BAD SHOT 308
XXVII DANGEROUS SHADOWS 320
XXVIII A DASH FOR PORT 330
XXIX THE OPEN DOOR CLOSES 341

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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. _Frontispiece_

"For the love of God, do not rouse her. She
sees! She sees!" 46

Minute after minute, Stubbs stared at this
sight in silence. 278

Sorez stared straight ahead of him in a frenzy.
Then the shadow sprang, throwing his arms about
the tall figure. 304

THE WEB OF THE GOLDEN SPIDER

CHAPTER I

_The Closed Door Opens_

In his aimless wanderings around Boston that night Wilson passed the
girl twice, and each time, though he caught only a glimpse of her
lithe form bent against the whipping rain, the merest sketch of her
somber features, he was distinctly conscious of the impress of her
personality. As she was absorbed by the voracious horde which shuffled
interminably and inexplicably up and do