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Title: A Bid for Fortune
or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta

Author: Guy Boothby

Release Date: May 29, 2007 [EBook #21640]

Language: English

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A BID FOR FORTUNE

DR. NIKOLA'S VENDETTA

By GUY BOOTHBY

Author of "Dr. Nikola," "The Beautiful White Devil," etc., etc.

WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED
LONDON, MELBOURNE AND TORONTO
1918

[Illustration: "Again she turned her face from me."]

CONTENTS.

Part I.

PROLOGUE--Dr. Nikola

CHAPTER I. I determine to take a Holiday,--Sydney, and what Befel me
there

CHAPTER II. London

CHAPTER III. I Visit my Relations

CHAPTER IV. I Save an Important Life

CHAPTER V. Mystery

CHAPTER VI. I Meet Dr. Nikola again

CHAPTER VII. Port Said, and what Befel us there

CHAPTER VIII. Our Imprisonment and Attempt at Escape

CHAPTER IX. Dr. Nikola permits us a Free Passage

Part II.

CHAPTER I. We reach Australia, and the Result

CHAPTER II. On the Trail

CHAPTER III. Lord Beckenham's Story

CHAPTER IV. Following up a Clue

CHAPTER V. The Islands, and what we found there

CHAPTER VI. Conclusion

A BID FOR FORTUNE

_PART I_

PROLOGUE

DR. NIKOLA

The manager of the new Imperial Restaurant on the Thames Embankment went
into his luxurious private office and shut the door. Having done so, he
first scratched his chin reflectively, and then took a letter from the
drawer in which it had reposed for more than two months and perused it
carefully. Though he was not aware of it, this was the thirtieth time he
had read it since breakfast that morning. And yet he was not a whit
nearer understanding it than he had been at the beginning. He turned it
over and scrutinized the back, where not a sign of writi