Brand Blotters

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   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

PART I

MELISSY OF THE BAR DOUBLE G



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