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Title: The Girl in the Golden Atom

Author: Raymond King Cummings

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Language: English

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THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM

by

RAY CUMMINGS

TO
MY FRIEND AND MENTOR
ROBERT H. DAVIS
WITH GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
HIS ENCOURAGEMENT AND PRACTICAL
ASSISTANCE TO WHICH I OWE MY
INITIAL SUCCESS

CONTENTS

I. A Universe in an Atom

II. Into the Ring

III. After Forty-eight Hours

IV. Lylda

V. The World in the Ring

VI. Strategy and Kisses

VII. A Modern Gulliver

VIII. "I Must Go Back"

IX. After Five Years

X. Testing the Drugs

XI. The Escape of the Drug

XII. The Start

XIII. Perilous Ways

XIV. Strange Experiences

XV. The Valley of the Scratch

XVI. The Pit of Darkness

XVII. The Welcome of the Master

XVIII. The Chemist and His Son

XIX. The City of Arite

XX. The World of the Ring

XXI. A Life Worth Living

XXII. The Trial

XXIII. Lylda's Plan

XXIV. Lylda Acts

XXV. The Escape of Targo

XXVI. The Abduction

XXVII. Aura

XXVIII. The Attack on the Palace

XXIX. On the Lake

XXX. Word Music

XXXI. The Palace of Orlog

XXXII. An Ant-hill Outraged

XXXIII. The Rescue of Loto

XXXIV. The Decision

XXXV. Good-bye to Arite

XXXVI. The Fight in the Tunnels

XXXVII. A Combat of Titans

XXXVIII. Lost in Size

XXXIX. A Modern Dinosaur

XL. The Adventurers' Return

XLI. The First Christmas

THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM

CHAPTER I

A UNIVERSE IN AN ATOM

"Then you mean to say there is