| 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 |
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