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    cimmerian


    1. The Cimmerian grunted in surprize


    2. 'Crom!' muttered the Cimmerian


    3. The Cimmerian grasped it with both hands, and with legs braced and the muscles standing out on his arms and back in straining knots, he heaved it above his head and cast it from him, exerting every ounce of nerve and sinew


    4. The Cimmerian, born in a hill country, could have run up it like a cat, but Olivia found the going difficult


    5. Over against this bizarre mob stood the tall Cimmerian in strong contrast with his hard bronzed limbs and clean-cut vital features


    6. The point quivered an instant from between Sergius's shoulders, a hand's breadth of white fire in the sunlight; then the Cimmerian wrenched back his steel and the pirate chief fell heavily, face down, and lay in a widening pool of blood, his broad hands twitching for an instant


    7. 'He's not dead,' answered the Corinthian, rising from beside the prostrate Cimmerian


    8. The Cimmerian, who was beginning to regain consciousness, was bound with leather girdles, and then four pirates lifted him, and with many complaints and curses, carried him along with the band, which took up its journey across the plateau once more


    9. Left alone and unprotected, she realized how much the protection of the Cimmerian had meant to her


    10. Olivia sighed; at least she knew that the Cimmerian still lived

    11. In spite of his burden, the Cimmerian crossed the plateau swiftly, and Olivia, opening her eyes, saw that they were passing under the shadow of the cliffs


    12. Only the iron neck-muscles of the Cimmerian saved him from a broken neck that instant


    13. The Cimmerian resisted this effort, with his left arm rigid as iron, while the sword in his right hand, wielded like a butcher-knife, sank again and again into the groin, breast and belly of his captor


    14. The Cimmerian breathed heavily, and walked like a man whose joints and muscles have been wrenched and twisted almost to their limit of endurance


    15. The clamor rose to a crescendo of madness, and then the Cimmerian turned and went swiftly toward the rim of the plateau, with its fringe of moon-limned trees


    16. 'Aye, by Mitra!' The pirate, sensing the trend of feeling, was eager to ingratiate himself with the Cimmerian


    17. Conan the Cimmerian, restless in his plate-armor, stared at the bedecked camel with no great approval, and spoke to Amalric, who rode beside him, resplendent in chain-mail threaded with gold, golden breastplate and helmet with flowing horsehair crest


    18. "The women of the Hyborians do not fight like your Cimmerian women, Conan," he said


    19. "They'd smother us with numbers," answered the Cimmerian


    20. The Cimmerian reeled in his saddle, half stunned, and with awful strength the dark-skinned giant forced the screaming steed upward and backward, until it lost its footing and crashed into the muck of bloody sand and writhing bodies

    21. For as it fell it altered horribly; its outline melted and writhed, and a hooded cobra reared up hissing before the horrified Cimmerian


    22. 'We'd best stand to it,' growled the Cimmerian; 'else we'll all die with shafts in our backs, and not a blow dealt


    23. On the pyramid among the fallen towers sat Conan the Cimmerian like an iron statue, chin propped on massive fists


    24. Having apparently saved the Cimmerian for the choicest victim, and extracted the last ounce of exquisite mental torture, it was likely that the unknown enemy would conclude the drama by sending him after the other victims


    25. The rest did not falter; on they came, and like a rain of death among them fell the arrows of the Cimmerian, driven with all the force and accuracy of steely thews backed by a hate hot as the slag-heaps of hell


    26. It towered over the prostrate Cimmerian like a black shadow, arms thrown wide—a glimmer of white flashed between it and its victim


    27. Then she was gone, and the Cimmerian saw only the winged fiend which had staggered back in unwonted fear, arms lifted as if to fend off attack


    28. Turning on his heel, the Cimmerian strode down the rotting wharfs and stepped aboard the galley


    29. Endowed with all the barbarian's ferocious love of life and instinct to live, Conan the Cimmerian yet knew that he had reached the end of his trail


    30. The Cimmerian did not reply for a space

    31. "Not a wound on him," grunted the Cimmerian, "but he's dead as Almuric with forty Stygian arrows in him


    32. "There'll be more unless I find water soon," growled the Cimmerian, his short store of patience about exhausted


    33. They saw no one, but the Cimmerian grunted suspiciously


    34. "What madness is this?" growled the Cimmerian harshly, not relishing the man's words or manner


    35. "I'll vanish your head from your shoulders!" snarled the infuriated Cimmerian, his saber gleaming in his hand


    36. "Well," answered the Cimmerian cautiously, "whatever it is that takes a man from a sleeping-dais and leaves only a spot of blood


    37. The Cimmerian had never seen such a woman; her facial outline was Stygian, but she was not dusky-skinned like the Stygian women he had known; her limbs were like alabaster


    38. The sight of that awful shape alone might have frozen the Cimmerian with fear


    39. They had rolled beyond the circle of light, and it was in utter blackness that the Cimmerian battled


    40. Hilt-deep the saber sank, somewhere below the grisly face, and a convulsive shudder heaved the vast bulk that half enveloped the Cimmerian

    41. The manhandling the Cimmerian had received was appalling to behold


    42. But she could not bring herself to plunge the Cimmerian poniard into that still bosom, and at last she drew back the hanging and returned to Conan, who lay where she had left him, seemingly only partly conscious


    43. But the Cimmerian, struggling up to a sitting posture, wrenched the pincers from his fingers and sent him staggering backward with a violent shove


    44. There are also rumors that this band has increased vastly in the last few months, and that Olgerd, incited no doubt by this Cimmerian, is even considering a raid on Khauran


    45. To his splendor the huge Cimmerian opposite him offered a strong contrast, with his square-cut black mane, brown scarred countenance and burning blue eyes


    46. And the Cimmerian is equipped for a siege


    47. Conan the Cimmerian sat at the head of that column, near the jagged end of a wooden beam that stuck up out of the ground


    48. The Wazuli chief was as tall as Conan, and of greater girth, but he looked fat and slow beside the hard compactness of the Cimmerian


    49. The Cimmerian had not drawn his long knife, but his left hand grasped the scabbard, jutting the hilt suggestively forward


    50. His spine cracked in three places like a rotten branch and he was hurled headlong against the Cimmerian, bearing him backward so that they both crashed to the beaten floor














































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