Forbidden Cargoes

Mystery Stories for Boys

Forbidden Cargoes

By
ROY J. SNELL

The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago New York

Printed in the United States of America

Copyright, 1927
by
The Reilly & Lee Co.

All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I A Strange Message 9
II An Underground Sea 29
III A Strange Dark Room 47
IV Johnny Thompson in Jail 58
V Tottering Walls 68
VI An Earthquake Within a Cave 74
VII Johnny Wins a Friend 85
VIII An Ancient Castle in Ruins 96
IX Creeping Shadows 108
X Camp Smoke 117
XI Battling Against Odds 131
XII Destruction 152
XIII A Thousand Pearls 166
XIV Hope Springs Eternal 179
XV Unseen Foes 192
XVI In Battle Array 201
XVII Pant’s Problem Increases 214
XVIII Two Blade Johnny 221
XIX The Unwilling Guest 230
XX Hail and Farewell 247
XXI On the Trail of the Pearls 254
XXII A Startling Revelation 263
XXIII Treasure at Last 274
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Forbidden Cargoes


CHAPTER I
A STRANGE MESSAGE

In a plain board shack with a palm thatchedroof which had the Caribbean Sea at its frontand the Central American jungle at its back,a slim, stooping sort of boy, with eyes thatgleamed out of the dark corners exactly likea tiger’s, paced back and forth the length ofa long, low room. His every motion suggesteda jaguar’s stealth.

It was Panther Eye, a boy who was endowedwith a cat’s ability to see in the dark,and who spent much of his young life in Indiaand other tropical lands. He also found himselfquite at home in Central America. Nevertheless,at this moment he was in deep trouble.

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The palm thatched shack boasted but oneroom. As the boy paced the mahogany

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