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

The Lion's Brood

By

Duffield Osborne

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

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.