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Title: Son of Power

Author: Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost

Release Date: November 29, 2006 [eBook #19970]

Language: English

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SON OF POWER

by

WILL LEVINGTON COMFORT and ZAMIN KI DOST

Garden City New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1920
Copyright, 1920, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation
into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian
Copyright, 1919, by the Curtis Publishing Company

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Zamin Ki Dost is a title given to one who lived in India many
years--from the time when she was little more than a child. The tale
of tales would be her own story. Her name is

WILLIMINA L. ARMSTRONG

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I THE GOOD GREY NERVE
II SON OF POWER
III SON OF POWER (_Continued_)
IV THE MONKEY GLEN
V THE MONKEY GLEN (_Continued_)
VI JUNGLE LAUGHTER
VII THE HUNTING CHEETAH
VIII THE MONSTER KABULI
IX THE MONSTER KABULI (_Continued_)
X HAND-OF-A-GOD
XI ELEPHANT CONCERNS
XII BLUE BEAST
XIII NEELA DEO, KING OF ALL ELEPHANTS
XIV NEELA DEO, KING OF ALL ELEPHANTS (_Continued_)
XV THE LAIR
XVI FEVER BIRDS

SON OF POWER

CHAPTER I

_The Good Grey Nerve_

His name was Sanford Hantee, but you will hear that only occasionally,
for the boys of the back streets called him Skag, which "got" him
somewhere at once. That was in Chicago. He was eleven years old, when
he wandered quite alone to Lincoln Park Zoo, and the madness took him.

A silent madness. It flooded over him like a river. If any one had
noticed, it would have appeared that Skag's eyes changed. Always he
quite contained himself, but his lips stirred to speech even less after
that. He didn't pretend to go to school the next day; in fact, the
spell wasn't broken until nearly a week afterward, when the keeper of
the Monkey House pointed Skag out to a policeman, saying the boy had