The Crystal Sceptre / A Story of Adventure. E-book. Formato PDF Philip Verrill Mighels   -  Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019  - 

Note: Also published under title: The king of the missing links. This is an early Science Fiction work, an adventure story about a man lost in the jungle after a balloon ride goes wrong. The story is fast moving. It was also published with an alternate title 'The King of the Missing Links' which tells us a lot more about the contents.  

The Furnace of Gold. E-book. Formato EPUB Philip Verrill Mighels   -  Books On Demand, 2019  - 

Now Nevada, though robed in gray and white-the gray of sagebrush and the white of snowy summits-had never yet been accounted a nun when once again the early summer aroused the passions of her being and the wild peach burst into bloom.It was out in Nauwish valley, at the desert-edge, where gold has been stored in the hungry-looking rock to lure man away from fairer pastures. There were mountains everywhere-huge, rugged mountains, erected in the igneous fury of world-making, long since calmed. Above them all the sky was almost incredibly blue-an intense ultramarine of extraordinary clearness and profundity.At the southwest limit of the valley was the one human habitation established thereabout in many miles, a roadside station where a spring of water issued from the earth. Towards this, on the narrow, side-hill road, limped a dusty red automobile.It contained three passengers, two women and a man. Of the women, one was a little German maid, rather pretty and demure, whose duty it was to enact the chaperone. The other, Beth Kent, straight from New York City, well-the wild peach was in bloom!