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TREASURE and TROUBLE THEREWITH
A TALE OF CALIFORNIA
BY GERALDINE BONNER
1917
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER
JOHN BONNER
WHO, HIMSELF A WRITER, TRAINED ME IN THE WORK HE LOVED. WHAT MERIT THEREADER MAY FIND IN THESE PAGES IS THE RESULT OF THAT TRAINING, UNDERTAKENWITH A FATHER'S PRIDE, CARRIED ON WITH A FATHER'S BELIEF ANDENCOURAGEMENT.
GERALDINE BONNER
CONTENTS
I. HANDS UP
II. THE TULES
III. MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
IV. THE DERELICT
V. THE MARKED PARAGRAPH
VI. PANCHA
VII. THE PICAROON
VIII. THOSE GIRLS OF GEORGE'S
IX. GREEK MEETS GREEK
X. MICHAELS THE MINER
XI. THE SOLID GOLD NUGGET
XII. A KISS
XIII. FOOLS IN THEIR FOLLY
XIV. THE NIGHT RIDER
XV. THE LAST DINNER
XVI. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
XVII. THE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING
XVIII. OUTLAWED
XIX. HALF TRUTHS AND INFERENCES
XX. MARK PAYS A CALL
XXI. A WOMAN SCORNED
XXII. THEREBY HANGS A TALE
XXIII. THE CHINESE CHAIN
XXIV. LOVERS AND LADIES
XXV. WHAT JIM SAW
XXVI. PANCHA WRITES A LETTER
XXVII. BAD NEWS
XXVIII. CHRYSTIE SEES THE DAWN
XXIX. LORRY SEES THE DAWN
XXX. MARK SEES THE DAWN
XXXI. REVELATION
XXXII. THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT
XXXIII. THE MORNING THAT CAME
XXXIV. LOST
XXXV. THE UNKNOWN WOMAN
XXXVI. THE SEARCH
XXXVII. HAIL AND FAREWELL
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
He … heard the feller at the wheel say, "Hands up!" Frontispiece
"Oh, silly, unbelieving child!" came his voice
As it came it sent up a hoarse cry for food
The ghost of a smile touched her lips
TREASURE and TROUBLE THEREWITH
CHAPTER I
HANDS UP
The time was late August some eleven years ago. The place that part ofcentral California where, on one side, the plain unrolls in goldenlevels, and on the other swells upward toward the rounded undulations ofthe foothills.