The People of the Black Circle

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Robert Ervin Howard. The People of the Black Circle

The People of the Black Circle

Table of Contents

Chapter I: Death Strikes a King

Chapter II: A Barbarian from the Hills

Chapter III: Khemsa Uses Magic

Chapter IV: An Encounter in the Pass

Chapter V: The Black Stallion

Chapter VI: The Mountain of the Black Seers

Chapter VII: On to Yimsha

Chapter VII: On to Yimsha

Chapter VIII: Yasmina Knows Stark Terror

Chapter IX: The Castle of the Wizard

Chapter X: Yasmina and Conan

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Robert Ervin Howard

Published by Good Press, 2020

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Sobbing wildly, Yasmina plucked a jeweled dagger from her girdle and plunged it to the hilt in his breast. He stiffened and then went limp, a grim smile curving his dead lips. Yasmina hurled herself face-down on the rush-covered floor, beating the reeds with her clenched hands. Outside, the gongs and conchs brayed and thundered and the priests gashed themselves with copper knives.

The governor had not been long gone from her when Yasmina suddenly remembered something else which she had wished to discuss with him, but had forgotten until that moment. It concerned the past actions of one Kerim Shah, a nobleman from Iranistan, who had dwelt for a while in Peshkhauri before coming on to the court at Ayodhya. A vague suspicion concerning the man had been stirred by a glimpse of him in Peshkhauri that night. She wondered if he had followed her from Ayodhya. Being a truly remarkable Devi, she did not summon the governor to her again, but hurried out into the corridor alone, and hastened toward his chamber.

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