THE ORIGINAL MAGAZINE TEXT! THE MAD KING: All Ludstadt was in an uproar.
The mad king had escaped. For ten years no man of them all had set eyes
upon the face of the boy-king who had been hastened to the grim castle
of Blentz upon the death of the old king, his father. Into this troubled
country came Barney Custer of Beatrice, Nebraska, a virtual twin of the
mad king. BARNEY CUSTER OF BEATRICE tells of the fearless young
American's second visit to Lutha, where he squares a few accounts he was
forced to overlook in his hasty retreat from the tiny kingdom after he
had incurred the jealous hatred of the ingrate monarch, whose scepter he
had restored.