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Title: Brand Blotters

Author: William MacLeod Raine

Illustrator: Clarence Rowe

Release Date: December 7, 2008 [EBook #27436]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "WHO ARE YOU?" "WATER!" HE GASPED. Page 20.]

BRAND BLOTTERS

By

WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE

Author Of

Wyoming, Bucky O'Connor, Mavericks,
A Texas Ranger, Ridgway Of Montana, Etc.

Illustrations By

CLARENCE ROWE

Grosset & Dunlap

Publishers New York

Made in the United States of America

Copyright, 1909, by J. B. Lippincott Co.

Copyright, 1911, by Street & Smith

Copyright, 1912, by G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

Brand Blotters

TO
FRANK N. SPINDLER

In Memory of Certain Sunday Afternoon Tramps
Long Ago, During Which We Solved the
Problems of the Nation

CONTENTS

PART I

MELISSY OF THE BAR DOUBLE G

CHAPTER PAGE
I A Crossed Trail 11
II Brand Blotting 18
III An Accusation 35
IV The Man with the Chihuahua Hat 49
V The Tenderfoot Takes up a Claim 61
VI "Hands Up" 75
VII Watering Sheep 98
VIII The Boone-Bellamy Feud is Renewed 109
IX The Danger Line 121
X Jack Goes to the Head of the Class 141
XI A Conversation 156
XII The Tenderfoot Makes a Proposition 163
XIII Old Acquaintances 182
XIV Concerning the Boone-Bellamy-Yarnell Feud 191

PART II

DEAD MAN'S CACHE

CHAPTER PAGE
I Kidnapped 199
II A Capture 209
III The Tables Turned