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Lynde Francis. Branded
Branded
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
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Francis Lynde
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Again pushing Simmons ahead of me, I entered the vault. It was a fairly modern structure; Geddis had had it rebuilt within the year; and it was electric-lighted and large enough to serve the double purpose of a bank strong-room and a safety deposit. Shoving the deputy into a corner I opened the cash-box and took out the exact amount of my savings, neither more nor less. Simmons stretched his neck and leered at me with an evil grin.
"You're the fine little crook, all right enough," he remarked. "They was sayin' over at Jefferson that you was a Sunday-school sup'rintendent, or somethin' o' that sort. Them kind is always the flyest."
