EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
THE OUTLAW OF TORN
To My Friend
JOSEPH E. BRAY
CHAPTER I
HERE is a story that has lain dormant for seven hun-
dred years. At first it was suppressed by one of the
Plantagenet kings of England. Later it was forgotten. I
happened to dig it up by accident. The accident being
the relationship of my wife's cousin to a certain Father
Superior in a very ancient monastery in Europe.
He let me pry about among a quantity of mildewed
and musty manuscripts and I came across this. It is
very interesting--partially since it is a bit of hitherto
unrecorded history, but principally from the fact that it
records the story of a most remarkable revenge and the
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