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Ralph Gurney's Oil Speculation

Chapter 39: Transcriber's Note:
By James Otis
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A group of young friends and associates become involved in risky oil prospecting and confrontations with illegal night operators. They mount clandestine plans to torpedo wells using glycerine, elude a persistent detective, and make perilous night journeys through the woods. The narrative alternates between daring schemes, engineering work to drill and open wells, a destructive conflagration that prompts searches and pursuit, and legal maneuvers including arrests and missing witnesses. The plot follows their practical labors, traps, and courtroom struggles as possession and success in the oil fields are contested.

Transcriber's Note:

Variations in the use of hyphens and alternative spelling have been retained as they appear in the original except as in the following changes:

Page 5 friendship for you. changed to
friendship for you,
Page 12 and he was he was on his way changed to
and he was on his way
Page 14 I should have have been somewhere changed to
I should have been somewhere
Page 55 might he obliged to changed to
might be obliged to
Page 88 thay may make it disagreeable changed to
they may make it disagreeable
Page 146 in a box-buggy changed to
in a box buggy
Page 151 his own propperty changed to
his own property
Page 153 Hello! Helo-o-o! changed to
Hello! Hello-o-o!
Page 156 A SOUVENIR OF THE THIEVES changed to
A SOUVENIR OF THE THIEVES.
Page 180 call the case on of changed to
call the case one of
Page 225 said Bob, and before changed to
said Bob, "and before
Page 234 an hour bfore it changed to
an hour before it
Page 238 this was followd by changed to
this was followed by
Page 242 it was, prefering to changed to
it was, preferring to
Page 258 they might lose. "The Harnett" changed to
they might lose "The Harnett"
And in the advertisements:
Page 5 South Carolina in in 1780 changed to
South Carolina in 1780
Page 6 price $1,00 in Corporal Lige's Recruit changed to
price $1.00
Page 8 illustrated, price $1.00 in The Boy Cruisers changed to
illustrated, price $1.00.
Page 10 price $1, in Lost in the Canyon changed to
price $1.
Page 10 cloth, illustrated. in Captured by Apes changed to
cloth, illustrated,

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