E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 28530-h.htm or 28530-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/5/3/28530/28530-h/28530-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/5/3/28530/28530-h.zip) KINGS IN EXILE * * * * * * The MacMillan Company New York . Boston . Chicago Dallas . San Francisco MacMillan & Co., Limited London . Bombay . Calcutta Melbourne The MacMillan Co. Of Canada, Ltd. Toronto * * * * * * [Illustration: "The Gray Master."] KINGS IN EXILE by CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS Author of "The Backwoodsmen," Etc. Illustrated New York The MacMillan Company 1912 All rights reserved Copyright by Perry, Mason & Co. (1907), The Curtis Publishing Co. (1908-1909), The Associated Sunday Magazines (1908), The Red Book Magazine (1908). Copyright, 1910, By The MacMillan Company. Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1910. Reprinted June, 1910; July, December, 1912. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. CONTENTS PAGE Last Bull 1 The King of the Flaming Hoops 25 The Monarch of Park Barren 70 The Gray Master 107 The Sun-Gazer 140 The Lord of the Glass House 177 Back to the Water World 196 Lone Wolf 243 The Bear's Face 276 The Duel on the Trail 297 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE "The Gray Master." _Frontispiece_ "Last Bull, standing solitary and morose on a little knoll in his pasture." 6 "Only to be hurled back again with a vigor that brought him to his knees." 10 "When the grizzly saw her, his wicked little dark eyes glowed suddenly red." 32 "Almost over his head, on a limb not six feet distant, crouched, ready to spring, the biggest puma he had ever seen." 64 "He reached the tree just in time to swing well up among the branches." 72 "For perhaps thirty or forty yards the bull was able to keep up this almost incredible pace." 90