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Title: The Golden Magnet

Author: George Manville Fenn

Release Date: March 24, 2008 [EBook #24909]

Language: English

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The Golden Magnet, by George Manville Fenn.

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Books by George Manville Fenn are full of dreadful situations which the
reader cannot see the way out of. This one is no exception, in fact we
would easily say that it is one of his best.

Harry goes adventuring, and with him goes Tom, a young worker at Harry's
father's soap-boiling factory. Tom is wonderful. He gets Harry out of
numerous dire situations, and the book would not work without him. He
is down-to-earth, and full of commonsense and energy.

Despite all sorts of adverse conditions and persons, they get the gold,
and put everybody's affairs to rights, killing the villain, of course,
on the way. And marrying the heroine, even though she is his first
cousin.

A good example of a late nineteenth century teenager's book, and if you
like that sort of thing you will enjoy it too, for it is what used to be
called a crackingly good yarn.

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THE GOLDEN MAGNET, BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN.

CHAPTER ONE.

INTRODUCTORY.

Daybreak in the Incas' realm on the far western shores, known to our
fathers as the great wonderland--the great country discovered by
adventurous mariners, and thought of, dreamed of, seen through a golden
mist raised by the imagination--a mist which gave to everything its own
peculiar hue; and hence the far-off land was whispered of as "El
Dorado," the gilded, "the Golden Americas," and the country whose rivers
ran over golden sand, whose rocks were veined with the coveted ore; and
nations vied with each other in seeking to humble the haughty Spaniard,
whose enterprise had gained him the strongest footing in the coveted
region.

Daybreak at Tehutlan, the Incas' city, in the year 1533, and the peaks