Claim Number One

by George W. Ogden

E-text prepared by Roger Frank
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(http://www.pgdp.net)

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CLAIM NUMBER ONE

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The crowd parted and opened a lane for a dusty man on a sweat-drenched horse to pass.

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Claim Number One

BY

GEORGE W. OGDEN