Oyen, Henry, 1883-1921 / 2008-07-10 00:00:00

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THE PLUNDERER

BY
HENRY OYEN


AUTHOR OF
BIG FLAT, GASTON OLAF, THE SNOW BURNER, ETC.


NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS


COPYRIGHT, 1920,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY


THE PLUNDERER

I
Roger Payne had come to a decision. He waited until the office door
had closed behind the departing stenographer, then swung his long legs
recklessly upon his flat-top desk and shouted across the room at his
partner:
"Jim Tibbetts!"
Tibbetts frowned. He was footing a column of cost figures and the
blast from his young partner nearly made him lose count.
Payne grinned. He liked his partner. Had he not done so he would
never have allowed himself to be dragged into business--Tibbetts &
Payne, Manufacturers' Agents. Two years of it. Two years from the day
on a Western irrigation dam when Payne had installed the cement machine
that Tibbetts was selling. Two years--to Payne--of prison. And now
his moment of decision had arrived.
Roger Payne was out of place. He did not fit the furniture. There was
a look of permanence to the dark tan upon his face which labeled it not
the surface sunburn which may be collected during a two weeks' vacation
or gradually acquired by spending Saturday afternoon and Sunday on the
golf links.
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