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A Slave’s Secret I am a plain man, and to do a plain man’s work was ever more to my taste than to set down with a clerk’s skill such happenings as have befallen. Nevertheless, something within me spu…
The Pass of Blood The first step now was to flee from the wrath of the Fan tribe. Cannibals were they, and over and above their just cause for offence I felt that they had long been tempted to try th…
What Next Befell On they came, like a swarm of angry bees from a hive; and I saw that they were mostly men of great stature, though mine, I judged, would still overtop the tallest, the which I do not…
At the Queen’s Mercy The next day passed without event of any kind, save the welcome advent of three good meals. I can say, for my part, that no sweet adventure could so well have satisfied my palate…
Astolba’s Errand Lestrade and I looked about us. The face of Lah was still so potently present in my friend’s memory that he seemed hardly conscious of the aspect of this new prison. I am, however, o…
The Cup of the Beast On the noonday that followed Astolba’s last visit, our usual meal was not brought to us, but on the hour, a turbaned slave appeared, bearing rich vestments of the barbarous kind …
The High Priest’s Council Heavy still with the fumes of the Queen’s sleeping-potion that the black had brought me, I sat with my head in my hands after Lah’s departure, thinking yet but lamely, on al…
In the Cage Though I knew from all that had gone before that change of quarters was little likely to bring me comfort, pleasure, or ease, either of mind or of body, my spirits rose, despite my better…
The Mad Man of the Moon Thus it was that Agno and his ministers found me. Again, I may say their coming added no new horror to these last hours. It is the interminable waiting that wears to a thread …
The Red Witch holds her Revel It may have been hours or days. I do not fix the space of my captivity. A man in my state,—may it be reckoned with heavy reckoning against this son of darkness, this fou…
