Branded. Lynde Francis

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       Francis Lynde

      Branded

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664568625

Table of Contents

       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 of War

       XIV

       Paper Walls

       XV

       The Broken Wagon

       XVI

       In the Open

       XVII

       Aladdin's Lamp

       XVIII

       "The Woman . . . Whose Hands are as Bands"

       XIX

       A Reckoning and a Hold-Up

       XX

       Broken Faith

       XXI

       The End of a Honeymoon

       XXII

       A Woman's Love

       XXIII

       Skies of Brass

       XXIV

       Restoration

       XXV

       The Mountain's Top

I

       Table of Contents

The Heating of the Iron

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      It was not until the evening when old John Runnels, who had been the town marshal in my school days, and was now chief of police under the new city charter, came into the dingy little private banking room to arrest me that I began to realize, though only in a sort of dumb and dazed fashion, how much my promise to Agatha Geddis might be going to cost me.

      But even if the full meaning of the promise had been grasped at the time when my word was given, it is an open question if the earlier recognition of the possible consequences