The Hour of the Dragon, Robert E. Howard [best ebook reader for laptop txt] 📗
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Conan stood silently watching the priest as he went. From various
parts of the field knights were hurrying toward him. He saw
Pallantides, Trocero, Prospero, Servius, Gallannus, their armor
splashed with crimson. The thunder of battle was giving way to a roar
of triumph and acclaim. All eyes, hot with strife and shining with
exultation, were turned toward the great black figure of the king;
mailed arms brandished red-stained swords. A confused torrent of sound
rose, deep and thunderous as the sea-surf: “Hail, Conan, king of
Aquilonia!”
Tarascus spoke.
“You have not yet named my ransom.”
Conan laughed and slapped his sword home in its scabbard. He flexed
his mighty arms, and ran his bloodstained fingers through his thick
black locks, as if feeling there his re-won crown.
“There is a girl in your seraglio named Zenobia.”
“Why, yes, so there is.”
“Very well.” The king smiled as at an exceedingly pleasant memory.
“She shall be your ransom, and naught else. I will come to Belverus
for her as I promised. She was a slave in Nemedia, but I will make her
queen of Aquilonia!”
THE END
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