8838286e055d7a9549dd3b09c59e9e59 by Unknown

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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

her heels. Haste, girl; you'll be dusty again before we've got out of sight of this city. And Thalis, I'd take itkindly if you'd furnish us with a bit of food and drink."

For answer Thalis leaned herself against him, slipping one white arm about his bronzed shoulders. Hersleek naked flank pressed against his thigh and the perfume of her foamy hair was in his nostrils.

"Why dare the desert?" she whispered urgently. "Stay here! I will teach you the ways of Xuthal. I willprotect you. I will love you! You are a real man: I am sick of these moon-calves who sigh and dream andwake, and dream again. I am hungry for the hard, clean passion of a man from the earth. The blaze ofyour dynamic eyes makes my heart pound in my bosom, and the touch of your iron-thewed armmaddens me.

"Stay here! I will make you king of Xuthal! I will show you all the ancient mysteries, and the exotic waysof pleasure! I-" She had thrown both arms about his neck and was standing on tiptoe, her vibrant bodyshivering against his. Over her ivory shoulder he saw Natala, throwing back her damp tousled hair, stopshort, her lovely eyes dilating, her red lips parting in a shocked O. With an embarrassed grunt, Conandisengaged Thalis's clinging arms and put her aside with one massive arm. She threw a swift glance at theBrythunian girl and smiled enigmatically, seeming to nod her splendid head in mysterious cogitation.

Natala rose and jerked up her tunic, her eyes blazing, her lips pouting sulkily. Conan swore under hisbreath. He was no more monogamous in his nature than the average soldier of fortune, but there was aninnate decency about him that was Natala's best protection.

Thalis did not press her suit. Beckoning them with her slender hand to follow, she turned and walkedacross the chamber.

There, close to the tapestried wall, she halted suddenly. Conan, watching her, wondered if she hadheard the sounds that might be made by a nameless monster stealing through the midnight chambers, andhis skin crawled at the thought.

"What do you hear?" he demanded.

"Watch that doorway," she replied, pointing.

He wheeled, sword ready. Only the empty arch of the entrance met his gaze. Then behind him soundeda quick faint scuffling noise, a half-choked gasp. He whirled. Thalis and Natala had vanished. Thetapestry was settling back in place, as if it had been lifted away from the wall. As he gaped bewilderedly,from behind that tapestried wall rang a muffled scream in the voice of the Brythunian girl.

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When Conan turned, in compliance with Thalis's request, to glare at the doorway opposite, Natala hadbeen standing just behind him, close to the side of the Stygian. The instant the Cimmerian's back wasturned, Thalis, with a pantherish quickness almost incredible, clapped her hand over Natala's mouth,stifling the cry she tried to give. Simultaneously the Stygian's other arm was passed about the blond girl'ssupple waist, and she was jerked back against the wall, which seemed to give way as Thalis" shoulderpressed against it. A section

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