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Title: Empire Builders

Author: Francis Lynde

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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 38

V WANTED: THIRTY-FIVE MILLIONS 47

VI THE AWAKENING OF CHARLES EDWARD 59

VII HAMMER AND TONGS 66

VIII THE AUTOMATIC AIR 75

IX THE RACE TO THE SLOW 90

X THE SINEWS OF WAR 100

XI HURRY ORDERS 120

XII THE ENTERING WEDGE 141

XIII THE BARBARIANS 155

XIV THE DRAW-BAR PULL 166

XV AN UNWILLING HOST 177

XVI THE TRUTHFUL ALTITUDES 186

XVII A NIGHT OF ALARMS 198

XVIII THE MORNING AFTER 217

XIX THE RELUCTANT WHEELS 238

XX THE CONSPIRATORS 254

XXI THE MILLS OF THE GODS 271

XXII THE MAN ON HORSEBACK 285