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The World\'s Great Snare (Thriller Classic) Novel Synopsis
The mystery starts out in Sierra Nevada, at a gold mining camp.
Bryan came to America from England, chasing a man who may have papers which explain Bryan's mysterious origins…
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TWO SLEPT, AND ONE WATCHED
“At last!” muttered Mr. James Hamilton, opening his eyes and sitting upright on the floor. “Get up, you chaps! D’ye hear? Get up!”
No one stirred. As a matter of fact, neither of the other two men was awake.
With a final yawn the speaker stretched himself out and staggered to his feet.
Then he threw himself upon a rude wooden bench, picked up the stump of a corn-cob pipe which lay upon the ground, and smoked, with his elbows resting upon the empty window-frame, and his head stretched as far as possible outside. The dull stolidity of his features was quickened for the moment into the semblance of eagerness.
He was waiting to inhale the faint quivering breeze which was stealing down from the hills.
“At last!” he growled, with his eyes, dim and bloodshot, turned towards the western sky.
“What a hell of a day! There she goes, and be d—d to her!”
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