[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