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Title: Claim Number One

Author: George W. (George Washington) Ogden

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CLAIM NUMBER ONE

by

GEORGE W. OGDEN

Author of
The Duke of Chimney Butte
Trails End, Etc.

Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York

Made in the United States of America

Copyright

A. C. McClurg & Co.
1922

Published May, 1922

Copyrighted in Great Britain

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS
I. Comanche 1
II. Guests for the Metropole 9
III. Unconventional Behavior 21
IV. The Flat-Game Man 46
V. Skulkers 63
VI. The Drawing 79
VII. A Midnight Extra 104
VIII. The Governor's Son 122
IX. Double Crookedness 140
X. Hun Shanklin's Coat 154
XI. Number One 172
XII. The Other Man 188
XIII. Sentiment and Nails 206
XIV. "Like a Wolf" 219
XV. An Argument Ends 233
XVI. A Promise 255
XVII. A Plan 273
XVIII. The Strange Tent 288
XIX. Crook Meets Crook 304
XX. A Sudden Cloud 325
XXI. The