Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: INSTINCTIVELY EACH KNEW THE OTHER FOR A FOE. [Page 25]] "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