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The Lady of the Shroud

BOOK VIII: THE FLASHING OF THE HANDJAR
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In the meantime another Division had followed, its leader joining close behind the end of the first.

Then came another and another.

An unbroken line circled and circled round the hill in seeming endless array, till the whole slopes were massed with moving men, dark in colour, and with countless glittering points everywhere.

When the whole of the Divisions had thus surrounded the King, there was a moment's hush--a silence so still that it almost seemed as if Nature stood still also.

We who looked on were almost afraid to breathe.
Then suddenly, without, so far as I could see, any fugleman or word of command, the handjars of all that mighty array of men flashed upward as one, and like thunder pealed the National cry: "The Blue Mountains and Duty!" After the cry there was a strange subsidence which made the onlooker rub his eyes.


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