The Flaming Jewel

had slipped through the Secret Servi

alised merely that he arrived for no good purpose; and they had meant to arrest and

aming Jewel," stolen by him from the Grand Duchess Theodorica of Esthonia; and stolen from Quintana, in turn, by a pr

Military Intelligence, but now passing as a hold-up man under the name of Hal Smith, and act

America was Emanuel Sard, a Levantine diamond

on, Darragh, known as Hal Smith at Clinch's dump, began to suspect that

could be expected at Clinch's under some gu

supply Clinch's with "mountain beef"-or deer taken illegally-made it

ana's cipher and of $4,000 at pistol point. And one morning, while roving around the guide's quarters at Ghos

r, Victor Georgiades, Harry Beck, and José Sanchez. And Smith went back through the wilderness to Star Pond, convinced that one of these gentlemen was Quintana, and the remainder, Quintana's

lf. For he had promised the little Grand Duchess to help recover her Erosite jewel; and now that he had f

s he knew now that Clinch would die in prison befo

ch had the Erosite gem? The cipher fro

where the Flaming Jewel had been concealed, take it, and restore it to the beggared young gir

ense of humour. And Clinch, never dreaming that Hal Smith was the James Darragh who had inherited Har