E-text prepared by D Alexander and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 33498-h.htm or 33498-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33498/pg33498-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33498/33498-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/bransfordofrainb00rhodiala Transcriber's note: 1. Minor changes have been made to correct typesetters' errors; otherwise every effort has been made to remain true to the author's words and intent. 2. Text that was typeset in italics in the original book is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). Text that was underlined is enclosed by equal signs (=underlined=). BRANSFORD OF RAINBOW RANGE Originally Published under the title of BRANSFORD IN ARCADIA Or, The Little Eohippus by EUGENE MANLOVE RHODES Author of The Desire of the Moth, Good Men and True, West Is West, Etc. Frontispiece by Harvey T. Dunn Grosset & Dunlap Publishers New York Made in the United States of America Copyright, 1913, by Curtis Publishing Company Copyright, 1914, by Henry Holt and Company Copyright, 1920, by The H. K. Fly Company [Illustration: THE HORSES WERE UNWILLING TO ENTER THE CIRCLE OF FIRELIGHT. _Page_ 181] CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PROLOGUE 1 I THE PITCHER THAT WENT TO THE WELL 27 II FIRST AID 35 III MAXWELTON BRAES 47 IV THE ROAD TO ROME 61 V THE MASKERS 71 VI THE ISLE OF ARCADY 86 VII STATES-GENERAL 95 VIII ARCADES AMBO 106 IX TAKEN 113 X THE ALIBI 125 XI THE NETTLE, DANGER 136 XII THE SIEGE OF DOUBLE MOUNTAIN 150 XIII THE SIEGE OF DOUBLE MOUNTAIN (_continued_) 169 XIV FLIGHT 181 XV GOOD-BY 194 XVI THE LAND OF AFTERNOON 205 XVII TWENTIETH CENTURY 215 XVIII AT THE RAINBOW'S END 226 BRANSFORD OF RAINBOW RANGE BRANSFORD IN ARCADIA PROLOGUE I