'The Furnace of Gold' is an adventure novel written by Philip Verrill Mighels. Set in the state of Nevada, the story unfolds at the southwest limit of the Nauwish valley on 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 woman is Beth Kent, straight from New York City, who is accompanied by her fiancé, Searle Bostwick.
