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The Early Bird

CHAPTER I
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They would scale six hundred feet apiece, if they'd scale an inch." "You're in the lumber business, I take it," guessed the young man immediately, already reaching for his card-case.

"My name is Turner, known a little better as Sam Turner, of Turner and Turner." "Sam Turner," repeated the older man thoughtfully.

"The name seems distinctly familiar to me, but I do not seem, either, to remember of any such firm in the trade." "Oh, we're not in the lumber line," replied Mr.Turner.

"Not at all.
We're in most anything that offers a profit.

We--that is my kid brother and myself--have engineered a deal or two in lumber lands, however.


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