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Salute to Adventurers

CHAPTER XXVI
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He made a Christian end, and I will not have his memory stained by more murders.

But oh, Shalah, what a man died yonder!" He made me tell every incident of the story, and he cried out, impassive though he was, at the sword-play in the neck of the gorge.
"I have seen it," he cried.

"I have seen his bright steel flash and men go down like ripe fruit.

Tell me, brother, did he sing all the while, as was his custom?
Would I had been by his side!" Then he told me of what had befallen at the stockade.
"The dead man told me a tale, for by the mark on his forehead I knew that he was of my own house.

When you and the Master had gone I went into the woods and picked up the trail of our foes.


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