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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Crystal Hunters, by George Manville Fenn This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps Author: George Manville Fenn Illustrator: Fredric W. Burton Release Date: February 4, 2008 [EBook #24516] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CRYSTAL HUNTERS *** Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England The Crystal Hunters, by George Manville Fenn. ________________________________________________________________________ A tense tale, such as we expect of George Manville Fenn. A group of English people are in the Swiss Alps. But it is not just the beauties of the scenery they are after, but crystals which may sometimes be found in caves near the top of the glaciers. They manage to find a guide who promises to be discreet about what they do. But someone else is on the mountain, and he is just as interested in what they are up to, and what they find, as they are themselves. Of course, as we expect in a Manville Fenn novel, there are tense moments when people fall down crevasses, when there are avalanches and ice-falls, when icy rocks break off and come tumbling towards them. But what about the unknown person who is making off with their hard-won specimens? There is a surprise ending. It is a good readable book, well worth the effort of making an audio book and listening to it. ________________________________________________________________________ THE CRYSTAL HUNTERS, BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN. CHAPTER ONE. TWO MEN AND A BOY. "Steady there! Stop! Hold hard!" "What's the matter, Mr Dale?" "Matter, Saxe, my boy? Well, this. I undertook to take you back to your father and mother some day, sound in wind and limb; but if you begin like that, the trip's over, and we shall have to start back for England in less than a week--at least, I shall, with my luggage increased by a case containing broken boy." There was a loud burst of hearty laughter from the manly-looking lad addressed, as he stood, with his hands clinging and his head twisted round, to look back: for he had spread-eagled himself against a nearly
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