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He Moved a Step Nearer the Steel Rail.

THE MEN WHO WROUGHT

By

RIDGWELL CULLUM

Author of "The Night Riders," "The Way of the Strong," "The Law Breakers," etc.

PHILADELPHIA GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1916, by George W. Jacobs & Company

All rights reserved Printed in U. S. A.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

The Golden Woman The Law-Breakers The Way of the Strong The Twins of Suffering Creek The Night-Riders The One-Way Trail The Trail of the Axe The Sheriff of Dyke Hole The Watchers of the Plains

CONTENTS

I. The Danger

II. A Strange Meeting

III. The Mystery

IV. Mr. Charles Smith

V. The Lure

VI. The Old Mill Cove

VII. On the Grey North Sea

VIII. Borga

IX. The Friendly Deep

X. The Future

XI. Back at Dorby Towers

XII. Kuhlhafen

XIII. News

XIV. "Kamerads"

XV. The Ineradicable Strain

XVI. Enemy Movements

XVII. The Crouch of the Tiger

XVIII. From Beneath the Waters

XIX. The Tiger Springs

XX. Bar-Leighton

XXI. Enemy Movements

XXII. A Means of Escape

XXIII. The Wreck at Dorby

XXIV. Ruxton Arrives at a Great Decision

XXV. The Sweetness of Life

XXVI. Ruxton Wins a Trick

XXVII. The Week-End Begins

XXVIII. The Week-End

XXIX. The Close of the Week-End

XXX. Gazing Upon a New World

XXXI. After Twelve Months

ILLUSTRATIONS

He moved a step nearer the rail . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece

Out of the grey waters rose the submersible

"Go on," he said sharply

THE MEN WHO WROUGHT