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'Firebrand' Trevison By: Charles Alden Seltzer (1875-1942) |
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"FIREBRAND" TREVISON BY
CHARLES ALDEN SELTZER AUTHOR OF
THE VENGENCE OF JEFFERSON GAWNE,
THE BOSS OF THE LAZY Y,
THE RANGE BOSS, Etc. ILLUSTRATED BY
P. V. E. IVORY GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Made in the United States of America
Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1918 Published September, 1918 Copyrighted in Great Britain
CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE
I The Rider of the Black Horse 1
II In Which Hatred is Born 10
III Beating a Good Man 30
IV The Long Arm of Power 42
V A Telegram and a Girl 53
VI A Judicial Puppet 71
VII Two Letters Go East 79
VIII The Chaos of Creation 82
IX Straight Talk 93
X The Spirit of Manti 100
XI For the "Kiddies" 109
XII Exposed to the Sunlight 113
XIII Another Letter 130
XIV A Rumble Of War 137
XV A Mutual Benefit Association 146
XVI Wherein A Woman Lies 151
XVII Justice Vs. Law 155
XVIII Law Invoked and Defied 169
XIX A Woman Rides in Vain 183
XX And Rides Again in Vain 192
XXI Another Woman Rides 209
XXII A Man Errs and Pays 221
XXIII First Principles 234
XXIV Another Woman Lies 253
XXV In the Dark 264
XXVI The Ashes 273
XXVII The Fight 290
XXVIII The Dregs 310
XXIX The Calm 321
ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Instinctively each knew the other for a foe. Frontispiece "You are going to marry me some day. That's
what I think of you!" 97 "You men are blind. Corrigan is a crook who
will stop at nothing." 283
"FIREBRAND" TREVISON
CHAPTER I THE RIDER OF THE BLACK HORSE
The trail from the Diamond K broke around the base of a low hill dotted
thickly with scraggly oak and fir, then stretched away, straight and
almost level (except for a deep cut where the railroad gang and a steam
shovel were eating into a hundred foot hill) to Manti. A month before,
there had been no Manti, and six months before that there had been no
railroad. The railroad and the town had followed in the wake of a party of
khaki clad men that had made reasonably fast progress through the country,
leaving a trail of wooden stakes and little stone monuments behind.
Previously, an agent of the railroad company had bartered through,
securing a right of way. The fruit of the efforts of these men was a dark
gash on a sun scorched level, and two lines of steel laid as straight as
skilled eye and transit could make them and Manti. Manti could not be overlooked, for the town obtruded upon the vision from
where "Brand" Trevison was jogging along the Diamond K trail astride his
big black horse, Nigger. Manti dominated the landscape, not because it was
big and imposing, but because it was new. Manti's buildings were
scattered there had been no need for crowding; but from a distance from
Trevison's distance, for instance, which was a matter of three miles or
so Manti looked insignificant, toy like, in comparison with the vast
world on whose bosom it sat. Manti seemed futile, ridiculous. But Trevison
knew that the coming of the railroad marked an epoch, that the two thin,
thread like lines of steel were the tentacles of the man made monster that
had gripped the East business reaching out for newer fields and that
Manti, futile and ridiculous as it seemed, was an outpost fortified by
unlimited resource. Manti had come to stay. And the cattle business was going, Trevison knew. The railroad company had
built corrals at Manti, and Trevison knew they would be needed for several
years to come... Continue reading book >>
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