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EDGAR RICE
BURROUGHS

THE MAD KING







PART I


I

A RUNAWAY HORSE


ALL LUSTADT was in an uproar. The mad king had es-
caped. Little knots of excited men stood upon the street
corners listening to each latest rumor concerning this most
absorbing occurrence. Before the palace a great crowd
surged to and fro, awaiting they knew not what.

For ten years no man of them had set eyes upon the face
of the boy-king who had been hastened to the grim castle
of Blentz upon the death of the old king, his father.

There had been murmurings then when the lad's uncle,
Peter of Blentz, had announced to the people of Lutha the
sudden mental affliction which had fallen upon his nephew,
and more murmurings for a time after the announcement
that Peter of Blentz had been appointed Regent during the