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A Desperate Chance
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Title: A Desperate Chance The Wizard Tramp's Revelation, A Thrilling Narrative
Author: Old Sleuth (Harlan P. Halsey)
Release Date: January 12, 2004 [EBook #10690]
Language: English
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A DESPERATE CHANCE:
OR
THE WIZARD TRAMP'S REVELATION,
A Thrilling Narrative.
By OLD SLEUTH.
[Illustration: "He Placed the Ladder of Saplings Across the Abyss."]
CHAPTER I.
THE CAMPFIRE IN THE GULCH--AN ALARM--THE SOLITARY FIGURE--UNDER COVER--A WHITE MAN--"HAIL, FRIEND!"--A CORDIAL MEETING--A SECOND STRANGE CHARACTER.
"Well, Desmond, we've taken a desperate chance, and so far appear to be losers."
The circumstances under which the words above quoted were spoken were weird and strange. A man and a mere youth were sitting by a campfire that was blazing and crackling in a narrow gulch far away in the Rocky Mountains, days and days travel from civilization.
The circumstances that had brought them there were also very strange and unusual. Desmond Dare was the son of a widow who owned a small fa