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THE LION'S BROOD

by

DUFFIELD OSBORNE

Author of "The Spell of Ashtaroth," "The Secret of the Crater"







[Frontispiece: Here and there a Gaul would bound
forward . . . to throw himself prone beneath
the vermilion hoofs.]



New York
Doubleday Page & Company
1904
Copyright, 1901,
by Doubleday, Page & Co.




To the Memory of

HOWARD SEELY

BRILLIANT WRITER, TRUE-HEARTED GENTLEMAN,

STANCH AND LOYAL FRIEND





CONTENTS.


PART I.

INTRODUCTION


CHAPTER

    I.  NEWS
   II.  WORDS
  III.  PARTING
   IV.  FABIUS
    V.  TEMPTATION
   VI.  DISOBEDIENCE
  VII.  PUNISHMENT
 VIII.  DISGRACE
   IX.  HOME
    X.  CONVALESCENCE
   XI.  POLITICS
  XII.  BRAWLINGS
 