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A fiction novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around Jack Burton, a resourceful man with a past full of adventure, who finds himself in London after a stint in Bolivia where he discovered gold. As he grapples with his finances and the difficulty of obtaining backing for a mining venture, he encounters Stuart Northcote, a wealthy man who proposes an audacious