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Ralph Gurney's Oil Speculation
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13 Chapters
Chapter 1 THE "CHUMS."
Chapter 2 A NEW ACQUAINTANCE.
Chapter 3 THE CABIN OF THE MOONLIGHTERS.
Chapter 4 A REGULAR SIEGE.
Chapter 5 BOB'S SCHEME.
Chapter 6 TORPEDOING AN OIL-WELL.
Chapter 7 MR. NEWCOMBE'S CERTAINTY.
Chapter 8 NEW QUARTERS.
Chapter 9 THE NIGHT DRIVE OF THE TORPEDO WAGON.
Chapter 10 THE RETURN.
Chapter 11 THE STORM IN THE VALLEY.
Chapter 12 THE CONFLAGRATION.
Chapter 13 A FRUITLESS SEARCH.
Chapter 14 THE PURSUIT.
Chapter 15 THE ARREST.
Chapter 16 PLEADING FOR LIBERTY.
Chapter 17 NEAR NEIGHBORS.
Chapter 18 IN A TRAP.
Chapter 19 CLOSE QUARTERS.
Chapter 20 A SOUVENIR OF THE THIEVES.
Chapter 21 PROSPECTING.
Chapter 22 A CRUEL DEED.
Chapter 23 THE TOWN ORDINANCE.
Chapter 24 BOB'S INDUSTRY.
Chapter 25 THE WORK BEGUN.
Chapter 26 DRILLING AN OIL WELL.
Chapter 27 THE HARNETT.
Chapter 28 RED ROCK.
Chapter 29 THE EXAMINATION.
Chapter 30 LEGAL MOONLIGHTERS.
Chapter 31 THE SHOT.
Chapter 32 MASSIE'S SCHEME.
Chapter 33 HOLDING POSSESSION.
Chapter 34 THE MISSING WITNESS.
Chapter 35 MASSIE'S FAILURE.
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Chapter 13 A FRUITLESS SEARCH.

Many conflagrations, caused by the lightning striking an oil-tank, have been known since the discovery of petroleum; but none had ever been so disastrous as the one of which the reader has had but an imperfect account.

Forty-five thousand barrels of oil had been consumed or wasted up to the time as narrated in the previous chapter, and fully as

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