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Branded, by Francis Lynde
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Title: Branded
Author: Francis Lynde
Release Date: October 5, 2006 [EBook #19472]
Language: English
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[Frontispiece: The resemblance . . . transformed itself slowly into the breath-cutting reality, and I was staring up . . . into the face of Cummings.]
BRANDED
BY
FRANCIS LYNDE
AUTHOR OF
THE TAMING OF RED BUTTE WESTERN, THE CITY OF NUMBERED DAYS, ETC.
FRONTISPIECE BY
ARTHUR E. BECHER
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS ---------- NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published April, 1918
Reprinted April, 1918
To the one who, more clearly than any other, can best understand and appreciate the motive for its writing, this book is affectionately inscribed by
THE AUTHOR
CHAPTER
I.
THE HEATING OF THE IRON II. THE SEARING TOUCH III. IN THE NAME OF THE LAW IV. SCARS V. THE DOWNWARD PATH VI. A GOOD SAMARITAN VII. THE PLUNGE VIII. WESTWARD IX. THE CUP OF TREMBLING X. THE PLAIN-CLOTHES MAN XI. NUMBER 3126 XII. A CAST FOR FORTUNE XIII. FOR THE SINEWS