[Gutenberg 56230] • The Amethyst Cross

"The Amethyst Cross" is a novel full of thrilling situations and startling surprises. The plot is woven round an amethyst cross, in connection with which a fortune is concerned. Lesbia, the heroine, gives the jewel, which has been entrusted to her by her dying mother, as a love token to her fiance, George Walker. H o w George is attacked and robbed of the cross is but one of the many dramatic events which hold the reader to the end.