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DETERMINED DESTINY Destiny knocked at his door, but Doctor Rupert Lang was not at home. At that very moment he was talking of his destiny to Miss Eva Morrison in the glassed gallery of the Bayview Ho…
FALSE COLORS Lang caught this amazing introduction, and if he had been less wet, less ruffled, less indignant, he would probably have instantly denied it. As it was, he shut his mouth, and limply sho…
ROCKETT Lang’s fury of wrath slowly cooled. He sat down on the berth, drank a glass of water, and eventually laughed. These fellows had taken so much trouble over him, had been so patient, and all to…
WRECKED So began Lang’s strangest professional experience. He got rid of his companions as soon as he could, returned to the hospital room, and studied the unconscious man with a doubled and most pas…
THE DIGGER Late the next afternoon they were taken into Gulfport on board a Grand Cayman schooner laden with Jamaica timber. What had become of Rockett, or of any of the rest of the Cavite’s crew th…
YUMA OIL The blood rushed through Lang’s veins again. His face, which had been cold, felt suddenly flaming. “Just as I expected,” said Carroll. “I see you’ve found his cache. Don’t look like much, do…
HER FATHER The flash light dropped out of Lang’s hand. The girl’s light shifted; he heard a quick movement, the scrape of a match, and the yellow glow of a lamp shone out. She set it on the kitchen t…
GREEN STONES He slept right through the morning, dimly heard noon whistles blowing, and slept again. About two o’clock he awoke, rising out of a deep pit of utter unconsciousness, with a vague feelin…
UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCES Lang was astonished to find that Eva had already gone to the Mobile police headquarters and induced the authorities to telegraph to all the Gulf ports and coastguard statio…
A GENEROUS OFFER Lang arrived at Panama, hot and sticky and full of mixed expectations. He had not delayed a day; he had taken the first steamer for Colon, with the remaining two thousand dollars fro…
