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CHANCE IN CHAINS
IN FRONT OF BASIL GREGORY WAS A PILE OF GOLD.
CHANCE IN CHAINS
A STORY OF MONTE CARLO
BY GUY THORNE
Author of "When it was Dark," "The Drunkard," etc.
With Frontispiece from a Drawing by
HOWARD T. GRAVES
New York
STURGIS & WALTON
COMPANY
1914
Copyright, 1914
By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1914
CHANCE IN CHAINS
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | 3 |
| CHAPTER II | 21 |
| CHAPTER III | 46 |
| CHAPTER IV | 67 |
| CHAPTER V | 77 |
| PART II | 115 |
| CHAPTER VI | 117 |
| CHAPTER VII | 125 |
| CHAPTER VIII | 149 |
| CHAPTER IX | 157 |
CHANCE IN CHAINS
CHAPTER I
It was nine o'clock at night, and the thirty huge dynamos of the SociétéGénérale Electrique of Paris were nearly all at work. In the greatglass-roofed hall of the Mont Parnasse Central Power Stationblue-bloused workmen moved quietly over the shining floors of whiteconcrete, pausing now and then by this or that purring, spittingmonster, scrutinising the whirring, glittering copper drums, listeningwith experienced ears for the slightest variation in the deep wasp-likehum, touching a lever here, adjusting a screw there, or oiling a bearingwith tin cans beaked like a snipe.
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