ter 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

"Then the second puma pounced." 134

"He launched himself on a long, splendid sweep
over the gulf." 144

"After this the eagle came regularly every three
or four hours with food for the prisoner." 160

"And the writhing tentacles composed themselves
once more to stillness upon the bottom, awaiting
the next careless passer-by." 176

"Without the slightest hesitation he whipped up
two writhing tentacles and seized him." 188

LAST BULL

LAST BULL

That was what two grim old sachems of the Dacotahs had dubbed him; and
though his official title, on the lists of the Zoological Park, was
"Kaiser," the new and more significant name had promptly supplanted
it. The Park authorities--people of imagination and of sentiment, as
must all be who would deal successfully with wild animals--had felt at
once that the name aptly embodied the tragedies and the romantic
memories of his all-but-vanished race. They had felt, too, that the
two old braves who had been brought East to adorn a city pageant, and
who had stood gazing stoically for hours at