[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

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