IN PAWN
By Ellis Parker Butler
With Illustrations
Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
1921
CONTENTS
IN PAWN
CHAPTER I
Lem Redding had a dimple in his cheek that appeared when he smiled. For aboy with a faceful of freckles he was pretty. He had dear, bright grayeyes, and his smile, aided by the dimple, made most folks love him atsight. His hair was brown, as his dead mother's had been; in fact he wasmuch like that mother in more ways than one—far more like her thanhe was like Harvey Redding, his father. Lem was quick, agile, lively, andHarvey was plumb lazy.
Without an exception Harvey Redding was the laziest man in or nearRiverbank. He was one of the heaviest men, too, for he was a glutton. Heloved food.