Brand Blotters

by William MacLeod Raine

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“WHO ARE YOU?” “WATER!” HE GASPED. Page 20.

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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

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

Copyright, 1911, by Street & Smith

Copyright, 1912, by

G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

Brand Blotters

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TO

FRANK N. SPINDLER

In Memory of Certain Sunday Afternoon Tramps

Long Ago, During Which We Solved the

Problems of the Nation

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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	[217]
IV	The Real Bucky and the False	[231]
V	A Photograph	[243]
VI	In Dead Man’s Cache	[255]
VII	“Trapped!”	[266]
VIII	An Escape and a Capture	[276]
IX	A Bargain	[286]
X	The Price	[301]
XI	Squire Latimer Takes a Hand	[306]
XII	The Taking of the Cache	[322]
XIII	Melissy Entertains	[334]
XIV	Black MacQueen Cashes his Checks	[340]

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PART I

MELISSY OF THE BAR DOUBLE G

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