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Title: Tom Swift Among The Diamond Makers
or The Secret of Phantom Mountain

Author: Victor Appleton

Release Date: April, 1998 [Etext #1282]
Posting Date: November 6, 2009
Last Updated: June 9, 2010

Language: English

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TOM SWIFT AMONG THE DIAMOND MAKERS

or The Secret of Phantom Mountain

By Victor Appleton

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I A SUSPICIOUS JEWELER
II A MIDNIGHT VISIT
III A STRANGE STORY
IV ANDY FOGER GETS A FRIGHT
V A MYSTERIOUS MAN
VI MR. DAMON IS ON HAND
VII MR. PARKER PREDICTS
VIII OFF FOR THE WEST
IX A WARNING BY WIRELESS
X DROPPING THE STOWAWAY
XI A WEARY SEARCH
XII THE GREAT STONE HEAD
XIII ON PHANTOM MOUNTAIN
XIV WARNED BACK
XV THE LANDSLIDE
XVI THE VAST CAVERN
XVII THE PHANTOM CAPTURED
XVIII BILL RENSHAW WILL HELP
XIX IN THE SECRET CAVE
XX MAKING THE DIAMONDS
XXI FLASHING GEMS
XXII PRISONERS
XXIII BROKEN BONDS
XXIV IN GREAT PERIL
XXV THE MOUNTAIN SHATTERED--CONCLUSION

CHAPTER I--A SUSPICIOUS JEWELER

"Well, Tom Swift, I don't believe you will make any mistake if you buy
that diamond," said the jeweler to a young man who was inspecting a tray
of pins, set with the sparkling stones. "It is of the first water, and
without a flaw."

"It certainly seems so, Mr. Track. I don't know much about diamonds, and
I'm depending on you. But this one looks to be all right."

"Is it for yourself, Tom?"

"Er--no--that is, not exactly," and Tom Swift, the young inventor of
airships and submarines, blushed slightly.

"Ah, I see. It's for your housekeeper, Mrs. Baggert. Well, I think she
would like a pin of this sort. True, it's rather expensive, but--"

"No, it isn't for Mrs. Baggert, Mr. Track," and Tom seemed a bit
embarrassed.

"No? Well, then, Tom--of course it's none of my aff