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                         _The_ CRYSTAL SCEPTRE
                         _A Story of Adventure_


                       By PHILIP VERRILL MIGHELS
            _Author of “Nella, the Heart of the Army,” etc._

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                         R. F. FENNO & COMPANY
                9 and 11 East Sixteenth Street, New York
                                  1901


                             Copyright 1901
                                   by
                         Philip Verrill Mighels




                                Contents


  CHAPTER                                                           PAGE
  I. The end of the voyage                                             9
  II. A strange alliance                                  