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1. The Cimmerian grunted in surprize

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2. 'Crom!' muttered the Cimmerian

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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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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46. And the Cimmerian is equipped for a siege

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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

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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

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

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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

51. Barred from the Shalizah road, however, he had turned to the forbidden route, until news that Conan had not yet reached Afghulistan with his captive had caused him to turn southward and push on recklessly in the hope of overtaking the Cimmerian in the hills

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52. They came out upon the crest nearly a mile east of the spot where Khemsa had halted the Cimmerian and the Devi

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53. The path they had traversed was a perilous one, even for hill-men, and for that reason Conan had avoided it that day when carrying Yasmina, though Kerim Shah, following him, had taken it supposing the Cimmerian had done likewise

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54. Stubbornly, his mind fixed on what the dying Khemsa had told him, the Cimmerian groped for the gold vein, and found that he had moved off it in his descent

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55. With a grunt the Cimmerian turned and strode across the chamber to the opposite door, with a feeling of treading on the threshold of doom

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56. As he pushed past Conan, the Cimmerian threw an arm across his breast to arrest him

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57. As the third tribesman clumped his way past Conan to his death, the Cimmerian, his veins bulging in his temples with his efforts to break past the unseen barrier that held him, was suddenly aware of allied forces, unseen, but waking into life about him

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58. 'I have no goods,' growled the Cimmerian, touching the shagreen-bound hilt of the broadsword that hung at his hip

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59. 'Which proves what?' grunted the Cimmerian

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60. The black craned his neck to stare into the starlit road behind Conan; but he opened the gate without comment, and closed it again behind the Cimmerian, locking and bolting it

61. This Aram lifted and showed the Cimmerian into a well-appointed chamber, the windows of which, Conan instantly noted, were small and strongly set with twisted bars of iron, tastefully gilded

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62. She tossed back her thick, glossy locks and cast a fearful glance over her shoulder, while she pressed closer to the Cimmerian as if seeking security in the contact

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63. 'And what of his magic?' rumbled the Cimmerian

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64. 'Pick up my lover,' she directed, and the Cimmerian stooped and swung the tall form easily to his broad shoulder

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65. With an oath the Cimmerian smote the wall a terrific blow with the pommel of his sword, and the marble cracked and chipped

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66. The Cimmerian made no attempt to dodge or fend them away, but his own hands darted to the Kosalan's bull-neck

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67. Men said he was no civilized man at all, but a Cimmerian, one of those barbaric tribesmen who dwelt in the gray hills of the far North, and whose raids struck terror in their southern neighbors

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68. The Aquilonians were driven back across the marches, and have never since tried to colonize the Cimmerian country

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69. The Aquilonian slid to a stumbling halt, almost colliding with the Cimmerian who stood in the trail over a crumpled body

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70. And suiting action to words, he plunged after the Cimmerian

71. Balthus wasted his wind in swearing as the Cimmerian drew away from him again, like a phantom between the trees, and then Conan burst into a dim glade and halted crouching, lips snarling, sword lifted

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72. He blundered into the Cimmerian as the latter stopped dead, and rebounded from his brawny shoulders as though from an iron statue

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73. The Cimmerian seemed frozen in his tracks

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74. The Cimmerian was standing over the litter on which lay the body of Tiberias

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75. They were wild men, of a sort, yet there was still a wide gulf between them and the Cimmerian

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76. He lowered a hand to the Cimmerian, when around a corner of the altar-hut sprang a fleeing Pict

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77. Balthus set his teeth against the strain, and then the Cimmerian was on the wall beside him, and the fugitives dropped down on the other side

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78. But Conan was convinced no enemies were near, and the Cimmerian was right

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79. The Cimmerian might have spent years among the great cities of the world; he might have walked with the rulers of civilization; he might even achieve his wild whim some day and rule as king of a civilized nation; stranger things had happened

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80. The next instant he had broken through the bushes after the Cimmerian

81. Then he realized the full strength and ferocity of the Cimmerian

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82. As Balthus looked he saw the Cimmerian beat down a thrusting shortsword, avoid the stroke of an ax with a cat-like sidewise spring which brought him within arm's length of a squat savage stooping for a bow

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83. 'They've quit!' grunted the Cimmerian, scowling

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84. The Cimmerian seemed an iron man, who never knew fatigue

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85. 'Valannus wanted a fort built at the mouths of North and South Creeks,' grunted the Cimmerian

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86. But there was no hint of weakness in the long easy stride of the Cimmerian

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87. The Cimmerian showed him where broad wagon tracks turned off the main trail, deeply indented in the forest mold

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88. But the giant Cimmerian had repeatedly demonstrated his ability to take care of himself, and Balthus felt his duty lay toward the helpless settlers who slumbered in the path of the red hurricane

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89. There, to Conan the Cimmerian, moodily quaffing from a great wine-glass, came a gaunt forester with a bandage about his head and his arm in a sling

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90. 'Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,' the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian

91. "Conan, the Cimmerian!" ejaculated the woman

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92. Conan watched him warily from the corner of his eye, and just as Valeria believed the dragon was about to hurl himself up the crag again, the Cimmerian drew back and climbed up to the ledge with the branches he had cut

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93. He thrust Valeria from him with a force that sent her reeling a dozen feet to fall in a crumpled heap at the foot of the nearest tree, and the Cimmerian wheeled in the path of the thundering titan

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94. Convinced that his death was upon him, the Cimmerian acted according to his instinct, and hurled himself full at the awful face that was bearing down on him

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95. How the stunned Cimmerian regained his feet, not even he could have ever told

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96. The Cimmerian was suspicious

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97. With a redder, more abysmal gleam in his deep dark eyes he told of men and women flayed alive, mutilated and dismembered, of captives howling under tortures so ghastly that even the barbarous Cimmerian grunted

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98. Go with the Cimmerian

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99. Realizing that the warrior was hopelessly insane, the Cimmerian side-stepped, and as the maniac went past, he swung a cut that severed the shoulder-bone and breast, and dropped the man dead beside his dying victim

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100. The Cimmerian started toward Tecuhltli with reckless speed