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Excerpt from Q, A NovelMiss mariana benton, very slim, very languid, very much waved as to hair and very much mani cured as to fingers, minding the desk at the River Hotel, was twice aware of a gently spoken question before she felt constrained to remove her gaze from an object of stronger interest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a rep...

Excerpt from Hidden Creek So they had been for six hours, and it would soon be morning. The large, bare room, however, was still possessed by night, and the city outside was at its lowest ebb of life, almost soundless. Against the sky light the winter stars seemed to be pressing, the Sky was laid across the panes of glass like a purple cloth in which sparks burned. Suddenly and with strength Arundel sat up. Sheila rose with him, drawing up h...

Excerpt from The Branding IronThe story for some reason interested her. She felt that she could understand the love of young Lorenzo and of Isabella, the hatred of those two brothers and Isabella's horrible tenderness for that young murdered head. There were even things in her own life that she compared with these, in fact, at every phrase, she stopped, and, staring ahead, crudely and ignorantly visualized, after her own experience, what she h...

Excerpt from The Red Lady I remember the hollowness of purse and stomach, and the dullness of head. I even remember wondering that hair like mine, so conspicuously golden-red, could possibly keep its flame under such conditions. And halfway down the block, how very well I remember the decent-looking, black-clad woman who touched my arm, looked me hard in the face, and said, "A message for you, madam." She got away so quickly that I had n't o...

Excerpt from Snow-Blind It was the eager questioning of a modest, a¿'ectionate boy who curbs his natural e¿'er vescence of greeting like a well-trained dog. The tone was astonishingly young, a quiet, husky boy-voice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-...

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Katharine Burt, ne Newlin (1882-1977) was an American author. She wrote some of her books under the pen name Rebecca Scarlett. Among her best known works are: The Branding Iron (1919), The Red Lady (1920), Hidden Creek (1920), Snow- Blind (1921), 'Q' (1922), Quest (1925), The Grey Parrot (1926), Body and Soul (1927), Cock's Feather (1928), The Men of Moon Mountain (1930), A Man's Own Country (1931), The Tall Ladder (1932), Beggars All (1933), ...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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The author's first book, notable for jacket blurb by author Rex Beach: "...It is one of the strongest and best told stories I have read..." Filmed by Goldwyn Pictures in 1920 under direction of Reginald Barker. Fiction based in Wyoming about a jealous husband who branded his wife, supposedly taken from a real life episode that happened near Green River.