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Queen Sheba’s Ring

CHAPTER XVII
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Nor did they come back without need, for presently arrived a band of Prince Joshua's men to take me.
"Then Black Windows and the soldier his companion fought a good fight, they two holding the narrow passage against many, and slaying a number of them with their terrible weapons.

The end of it was, men of the mountains, that the warrior Quick, charging down the passage, drove away those servants of Joshua who remained alive.

But in so doing he was wounded to the death.

Yes, that brave man lies dead, having given his life to save the Child of Kings from the hands of her own people.

Black Windows also was wounded--see the bandages about his head.


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