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THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM

BY RAY CUMMINGS

TO
MY FRIEND AND MENTOR
ROBERT H. DAVIS
WITH GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
HIS ENCOURAGEMENT AND PRACTICAL
ASSISTANCE TO WHICH I OWE MY
INITIAL SUCCESS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. A Universe in an Atom
CHAPTER II. Into the Ring
CHAPTER III. After Forty-eight Hours
CHAPTER IV. Lylda
CHAPTER V. The World in the Ring
CHAPTER VI. Strategy and Kisses
CHAPTER VII. A Modern Gulliver
CHAPTER VIII. "I Must Go Back"
CHAPTER IX. After Five Years
CHAPTER X. Testing the Drugs
CHAPTER XI. The Escape of the Drug
CHAPTER XII. The Start
CHAPTER XIII. Perilous Ways
CHAPTER XIV. Strange Experiences
CHAPTER XV. The Valley of the Scratch
CHAPTER XVI. The Pit of Darkness
CHAPTER XVII. The Welcome of the Master
CHAPTER XVIII. The Chemist and His Son
CHAPTER XIX. The City of Arite
CHAPTER XX. The World of the Ring
CHAPTER XXI. A Life Worth Living
CHAPTER XXII. The Trial
CHAPTER XXIII. Lylda's Plan
CHAPTER XXIV. Lylda Acts
CHAPTER XXV. The Escape of Targo
CHAPTER XXVI. The Abduction
CHAPTER XXVII. Aura
CHAPTER XXVIII. The Attack on the Palace
CHAPTER XXIX. ...