Money to Burn
MONEY TO BURN
MONEY TO BURN
An Adventure Story
CHELSEA HOUSE
79 Seventh Avenue New York City
Copyright, 1924
By CHELSEA HOUSE
Money to Burn
(Printed in the United States of America)
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian.
To
Charles Keene Hammitt
Dear Governor:
Like most men of affairs, you prefer your books to be after the manner of this one—that's my belief, anyway. On a train by day, or abed by night, you will read “Money to Burn” and immediately forget it—which is as it should be, for then you can profitably reread it a year hence—but I'm certain it will entertain you while you are reading it. If it gives you the realization of good fights on strange islands in tropic seas, if it stirs you with the sense of its hairbreadth escapes, if its mystery “keeps you guessing” and inveigles you past your proper railroad station, or runs up the house electric- light bill by holding you tight until morning, then it is the sort of book that I have planned it to be. I am betting that it will accomplish such feats, and so I am dedicating it to you.
Your affectionate
Dec. 7 (O. S.), 1923.
CONTENTS
chapter page I. Queer Streets 11 II. “Cross-eyed” Johnson 18 III. Deadly Weapons 30 IV. The Beach Comber 31 V. A Shadow at a Door 63 VI. In the Dark 76 VII. Flying Steel 93 VIII. A Fighting Chance 107 IX. The Hunchback's Eyes 125 X. Two Million Dollars 132 XI. Footsteps 144 XII. Followed! 153 XIII. The Fortune 172 XIV. Another Prisoner 181 XV. The Wild Cat 192 XVI. Ready! 203 XVII. Luis' Machete 210 XVIII. Rejected Sacrifice 219 XIX. The Vagabond 227 XX. Double-crossed 236 XXI. The Treasury Notes 246 XXII. Counterfeit 261 XXIII. Under the Hoofs 271 XXIV. Flame 282 XXV. The Buenos Aires Woman 293 XXVI. Guilty Uncle Sam 310
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1924, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.
The longest-living author of this work died in 1959, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 64 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse