[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