Chapter I: Front Matter

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_BOYS' EMPIRE LIBRARY_ TITLES UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME ---- THE BLUE RIDGE PATROL _Rowland Walker_

"SCHOOL! SCHOOL!"
_Sydney Horler_

SHANDY OF RINGMERE SCHOOL
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THE FIFTH FORM DETECTIVE
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"PICKLES" OF THE LOWER FIFTH
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TRAPPED IN TRIPOLI!
_Tom Bevan_

SINCLAIR'S LUCK!
_Percy F. Westerman_

JACK ROLLOCK'S ADVENTURES
_Hugh St. Leger_

CAP'N NAT'S TREASURE
_Robert Leighton_

THE SECRET MEN
_Tom Bevan_

THE ADVENTURES OF DON LAVINGTON
_George Manville Fenn_

THE TERROR OF THE TIN MINE _George Manville Fenn_ ---- S. W. PARTRIDGE & Co. 4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.1

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SINCLAIR'S LUCK

A STORY OF ADVENTURE IN EAST AFRICA

BY PERCY F. WESTERMAN

AUTHOR OF "BILLY BARCROFT, OF THE R.N.A.S." "THE DREADNOUGHT OF THE AIR," "THE RIVAL SUBMARINES," ETC., ETC.

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S. W. PARTRIDGE & CO. 4, 5 & 6, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.1

_Readers of the adventures in East Africa of the two heroes, Colin Sinclair and Tiny Desmond, as narrated in the pages of this book, will be greatly interested in their school life, before leaving for the Dark Continent, which is splendidly told in the story entitled "The Mystery of Stockmere School."_

MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN _First published 1923_ _Frequently reprinted_

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE TWO CHUMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
II. "MEETING THE CASE" . . . . . . . . . . . 18
III. FAREWELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
IV. "REGARDLESS OF THE RISK" . . . . . . . . 30
V. IN THE DITCH--AND OUT . . . . . . . . . 41
VI. VAN DER WYCK'S GIFT . . . . . . . . . . 49
VII. DETAINED AT CAPE TOWN . . . . . . . . . 54
VIII. HELD UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
IX. ROBBERY UNDER ARMS . . . . . . . . . . . 66
X. THE MOUNTAIN TRACK . . . . . . . . . . . 71
XI. AT THE EDGE OF THE CHASM . . . . . . . . 80
XII. BESET BY LIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
XIII. THE MORNING AFTER . . . . . . . . . . . 94
XIV. BY VIRTUE OF THE TALISMAN . . . . . . . 99
XV. AT KILEMBONGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
XVI. SIBENGA'S ENVOYS . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
XVII. THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS . . . . . . . . . 121
XVIII. THE AMBUSH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
XIX. HOTLY PURSUED . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
XX. NIPPED IN THE BUD . . . . . . . . . . . 144
XXI. THE OTHER VAN DER WYCK . . . . . . . . . 153
XXII. PALAVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
XXIII. THE BULL ELEPHANT . . . . . . . . . . . 167
XXIV. A LUCKY SHOT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
XXV. MISSING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
XXVI. A DOUBTFUL CLUE . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
XXVII. THE RAVING OF THE WITCH-DOCTOR . . . . . 195
XXVIII. KIDNAPPED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
XXIX. IN THE HANDS OF THE MAKOH'LENGA . . . . 212
XXX. TO WHAT END . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
XXXI. THE GOLDEN IMAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
XXXII. AT THE FATAL MOMENT . . . . . . . . . . 238
XXXIII. WHERE THE GOLD WENT . . . . . . . . . . 244
XXXIV. EXPLANATIONS AND SURPRISES . . . . . . . 248

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"SUDDENLY DESMOND FELL WITH A
LOUD THUD" -- -- -- -- -- -- -- _Frontispiece_

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"HE FIRED TWO SHOTS IN QUICK
SUCCESSION" -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 42

"HIS FOOT CAUGHT IN THE TRAILING
TENDRIL AND HE CRASHED HEAVILY" -- -- -- -- 174

"WE'VE DONE IT, BY JOVE!'" -- -- -- -- -- 230

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