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Crater’s Gold, by Philip Curtis, utilizes certain faithful perquisites of the romancer: the old abandoned house, a forged document, the shaft head of a disused mine, and the familiar grouping of strangers in a country house that is certainly haunted, if not by the dead, then by the living who have no business there. These factors are, however (as they seldom succeed in being), the skeleton of a really convincing mystery, and the sophisticated. city people, contrasted with the rural folk (in particular with a rustic scholar in the person of a keen old judge), together with the true feeling for the New England scene, make it as a story of treasure and mystery something way above the common place. A book for discriminating folk who demand plausibility and style.

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