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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
XIII. THE RED FLAG
XIV. CANNAE
XV. "WITHIN THE RAILS"