（外文电子版资料）The Eyes of the Dragon v0.1.docVIP

I would appreciate any proof reading. I have left the page numbers (also for proffing reference) and added image tags, as I am working on an HTML version which will include the original b/w drawings. If you make any corrections please leave the page numbers and image tags until I have completed the illustrated version, and increase the version number by .1. i.e. if you modify V0.1 change it to V0.2 and so forth. Thanks for your help! John Warfin V0.1 1/27/01 This story is for my great friend Ben Straub, and for my daughter, Naomi King. {Insert first image} The Eyes of the Dragon By Stephen King {Insert image on page 1} Once, in a kingdom called Detain, there was a King with two sons. Detain was a very old kingdom and it had had hundreds of Kings, perhaps even thousands; when time goes on long enough, not even historians can remember everything. Roland the Good was neither the best nor the worst King ever to rule the land. He tried very hard not to do anyone great evil and mostly succeeded. He also tried ~ very hard to do great works, but, unfortunately, he didnt succeed so well at that. The result was a very mediocre King; he doubted if he would be remembered long after he was dead. And his death might come at any time now, because he had grown old, and his heart was failing. He had perhaps one year left, perhaps three. Everyone who knew him, and everyone who observed his gray face and shaking hands when he held court, agreed that in five years at the very most a new King would be crowned in the great plaza at the foot of the Needle . . . and it would only be five years with Gods grace. So everyone in the Kingdom, from the richest baron and the most foppishly dressed courtier to the poorest serf and his ragged wife, thought and talked about the King in waiting, Rolands elder son, Peter. And one man thought and planned and brooded on something else: how to make sure that Rolands younger son, Thomas, should be crowned King instead. This man was Flagg, the Kings ma