The La Chance Mine Mystery

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I. I Come Home: And the Wolves Howl 1

II. My Dream: and Dudley's Girl 16

III. Dudley's Mine: and Dudley's Gold 30

IV. The Man in the Dark 46

V. The Caraquet Road: and the Wolves Howl Once More 56

VI. Mostly Wolves: and a Girl 71

VII. I Find Little Enough on the Corduroy Road, and Less at Skunk's Misery 86

VIII. Thompson! 100

IX. Tatiana Paulina Valenka! 116

X. I Interfere for the Last Time 134

XI. Macartney Hears a Noise: and I Find Four Dead Men 148

XII. Thompson's Cards: and Skunk's Misery 164

XIII. A Dead Man's Messenger 182

XIV. Wolves—and Dudley 199

XV. The Place of Departed Spirits 218

XVI. In Collins's Care 231

XVII. High Explosive 247

XVIII. Lac Tremblant 265

XIX. Skunk's Misery 283

XX. The End 293