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THE POLAR TREASURE
A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter 1. THE BRONZE NEMESIS
? Chapter 2. THE CLICKING DANGER
? Chapter 3. FIGHTING MEN
? Chapter 4. THE BLIND-MAN HUNT
? Chapter 5. GONE AGAIN
? Chapter 6. HANGING MEN
? Chapter 7. THE MAP
? Chapter 8. STEEL WALLS OF DEATH
? Chapter 9. TOUGH CARGO
? Chapter 10. MAROONED
? Chapter 11. POLAR PERIL
? Chapter 12. ICE TRAP
? Chapter 13. ICE GHOSTS
? Chapter 14. CORPSE BOAT
? Chapter 15. THE ARCTIC GODDESS
? Chapter 16. THE REALM OF COLD
? Chapter 17. THE CAPTIVES
? Chapter 18. THE THAWING DEATH



Chapter 1. THE BRONZE NEMESIS
SOMETHING TERRIBLE impended.

This was evident from the furtive manner of the small, flat-chested man who cowered in the shadows. He
quaked like a terrified rabbit at each strange sound.

Once a cop came along the alleylike side street, slapping big feet heartily on the walk, twiddling his
nightstick, and whistling "Yankee Doodle." The prowler crawled under a parked car, and lay there until
the happy cop passed.

Near by loomed the enormous bulk of the New York Concert Hall. From the stage door on the side
street crept strains of a music so beautiful that each note seemed to grasp the heart with exquisite fingers.

A violin!

It was a Stradivarius violin, one of the most perfect in the world, and had cost the player sixty thousand
dollars.

The player was a blind man!
He was Victor Vail. Many music lovers maintained him to be the greatest living master of the violin. He
ordinarily got hundreds of dollars for rendering an hour of violin music before an audience. To-night he
played for charity, and got nothing.