Francis Lynde
Branded
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664568625
Table of Contents
"The Woman . . . Whose Hands are as Bands"
I
The Heating of the Iron
It was not until the evening when old John Runnels, who had been the town marshal in my school days, and was now chief of police under the new city charter, came into the dingy little private banking room to arrest me that I began to realize, though only in a sort of dumb and dazed fashion, how much my promise to Agatha Geddis might be going to cost me.
But even if the full meaning of the promise had been grasped at the time when my word was given, it is an open question if the earlier recognition of the possible consequences