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The Viking's Skull

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The Viking's Skull

By
John R. Carling
_Author of "The Shadow of the Czar," etc., etc._

Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1904




_Copyright, 1903, 1904_
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved_

Published March, 1904


HUBLEY PRINTING CO. L'T'D
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YORK, PA., U. S. A.

PRESSWORK BY
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.




Contents

                        PROLOGUE

CHAPTER                                            PAGE
    I.   "THE ENGLISH LADY"                           1

   II.   THE RUNIC RING                              11

  III.   A RETROSPECT                                18

   IV.   TRAGEDY!                                    26


                       THE STORY

   