The Project Gutenberg eBook, Empire Builders, by Francis Lynde, Illustrated by Jay Hambidge This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Empire Builders Author: Francis Lynde Release Date: August 31, 2005 [eBook #16630] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EMPIRE BUILDERS*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 16630-h.htm or 16630-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/6/3/16630/16630-h/16630-h.htm)

or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/6/3/16630/16630-h.zip) 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

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