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EMPIRE BUILDERS

by

FRANCIS LYNDE

Author of
The Quickening, The Grafters
A Fool for Love, etc.

With Illustrations by Jay Hambidge

Indianapolis
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers
Press of
Braunworth & Co.
Bookbinders and Printers
Brooklyn, N.Y.

1907







[Illustration: "I won't attempt to apologize--it's beyond all that"]




CONTENTS


CHAPTER                               PAGE

    I A MASTER OF MEN                    1

   II A SPIKED SWITCH                   13

  III LOSS AND DAMAGE                   30

   IV COLD STORAGE                