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Title: Quest of the Golden Ape

Author: Ivar Jorgensen
Adam Chase

Release Date: June 23, 2010 [EBook #32953]

Language: English

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This etext was produced from Amazing Stories January, February, March
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[Illustration: They were bent upon rapine and slaughter--and what
greater prize than the Queen herself?]

QUEST OF THE GOLDEN APE

By IVAR JORGENSEN and ADAM CHASE

_How could this man awaken with no past--no childhood--no
recollection except of a vague world of terror from which
his mother cried out for vengeance and the slaughter of his
own people stood as a monument of infamy?_

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I Mansion of Mystery
II The Great Clock of Tarth
III The Man in the Cavern
IV John Pride's Story
V Question Upon Question
VI On the Plains of Ofrid
VII The White God
VIII The Brown Virgin
IX In Custody
X The Road to Nadia
XI On the Ice Fields of Nadia
XII Volna the Beautiful
XIII The Journey of No Return
XIV Land Beyond the Stars
XV The Golden Ape
XVI The Raging Beast
XVII The Prison Without Bars

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CHAPTER I

_Mansion of Mystery_

In a secluded section of a certain eastern state which must remain
nameless, one may leave the main highway and travel up a winding road
around tortuous bends and under huge scowling trees, into wooded
country.

Upon a certain night--the date of which must remain vague-