Chapter I: Preface

“In The Tiger’s Lair” is the story of the return of Stanley Livingston and Ted Boyle to the Andes Mountains of Peru to complete their search for the hidden treasure of the Incas. It is a separate and complete story in itself--one may read and understand it without having read “The Hidden People.”

LEO E. MILLER.
FLORAL PARK,
STRATFORD, CONN.,
Sept. 1, 1921.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE END OF THE UNDERGROUND RIVER 1

II. SKY HIGH 11

III. THE RETURN TO THE LAND OF THE INCAS 24

IV. THE RIVALRY OF THE AIRMEN 32

V. IN QUEST OF THE HIDDEN TREASURE 43

VI. THE CROWNING MISFORTUNE 55

VII. IN THE TIGER’S LAIR 66

VIII. THE INCA’S THREAT 80

IX. SONCCO’S SHREWDNESS 92

X. THE PRISONERS CAPTURE THE KING 105

XI. THE COUNSEL OF THE WISE MEN 116

XII. THE VILLAINY OF VILLAC UMU 128

XIII. STANLEY’S PLAN 140

XIV. SONCCO’S AID TO THE PLOTTERS 151

XV. THE TERROR OF DARKNESS AT MIDDAY 165

XVI. THE COMING OF THE TIGERS 180

XVII. ANIMALS OF A BYGONE AGE 193

XVIII. THE MAN IN THE CRATER 205

XIX. THE BREACH IN THE MOUNTAIN IS CLOSED 221

XX. THE KING IS CROWNED 233

ILLUSTRATIONS

“Quizquiz, Inca, Child of the Sun ... commands that you
appear before his sacred person” _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

Very obviously the Inca had carefully planned to impress
the visitors 82

It was a bushmaster, the deadliest and the most feared of all
South American snakes 170

An instant later a huge, dark form catapulted past the crouching
men 210

IN THE TIGER’S LAIR