"'You are the only man to whom I
feel sure that I can reveal myself
and be quite understood'" _Facing page_ 104

"'Bobby! Don't be foolish. How
could I be in love with _him_?'" 158

"'His Majesty appears to have--ahem--gone
to sleep,' remarked
the Grand Duke tartly" 366




TRUXTON KING A STORY OF GRAUSTARK




CHAPTER I

TRUXTON KING


He was a tall, rawboned, rangy young fellow with a face so tanned by
wind and sun you had the impression that his skin would feel like
leather if you could affect the impertinence to test it by the sense of
touch. Not that you would like to encourage this bit of impudence after
a look into his devil-may-care eyes; but you might easily imagine
something much stronger than brown wrapping paper and not quite so