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THE FLAMING JEWEL
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
The Flaming Jewel
TRIANGLE · BOOKS NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Triangle Books Edition Published September 1942
Triangle Books, 14 West Forty-ninth Street,
New York, N. Y.
PRINTED AND BOUND IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE AMERICAN BOOK—STRATFORD PRESS, INC., N. Y. C.
TO
MY FRIEND
R. T. HAINES-HALSEY
WHO
UNRESERVEDLY BELIEVES
EVERYTHING I WRITE
To R. T.
I
Wedgewood, Revere, and Duncan Phyfe!
II
And out of Wedgewood, using care,
With Paul Revere you eat your fare.
III
To wage a gastronomic strife
In porringers; and platters rare
Of blue Historic Willow-ware.
IV
Or rose-wreathed feasts with riot rife
To your chaste suppers can't compare.
V
Paul, Duncan, Wedgewood! That's the life!
All else is bunk and empty air.
ENVOI
With Goulash, Haggis, Bouillabaisse,
Curry, Chop-suey, Kous-Kous Stew—
I can not offer these to you,—
Being a plain, old-fashioned cook,—
So pray accept this scrambled book.
R. W. C.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| EPISODE ONE | |
| Eve | 9 |
| EPISODE TWO | |
| The Ruling Passion | 33 |
| EPISODE THREE | |
| On Star Peak | 56 |
| EPISODE FOUR | |
| A Private War | 75 |
| EPISODE FIVE | |
| Drowned Valley | 93 |
| EPISODE SIX | |
| The Jewel Aflame | 110 |
| EPISODE SEVEN | |
| Clinch's Dump | 134 |
| EPISODE EIGHT | |
| Cup and Lip | 157 |
| EPISODE NINE | |
| The Forest and Mr Sard | 180 |
| EPISODE TEN | |
| The Twilight of Mike | 209 |
| EPISODE ELEVEN | |
| The Place of Pines | 233 |
| EPISODE TWELVE | |
| Her Highness Intervenes | 255 |
THE FLAMING JEWEL
Episode One
EVE
I
DURING the last two years Fate, Chance, and Destiny had been too busy to attend to Mike Clinch.
But now his turn was coming in the Eternal Sequence of things. The stars in their courses indicated the beginning of the undoing of Mike Clinch.
From Esthonia a refugee Countess wrote to James Darragh in New York:
"—After two years we have discovered that it was José Quintana's band of international thieves that robbed Ricca. Quintana has disappeared.
"A Levantine diamond broker in New York, named Emanuel Sard, may be in communication with him.
"Ricca and I are going to America as soon as possible.
"Valentine."
The day Darragh received the letter he started to look up Sard.
But that very