blackmail-wrung

Updated: May 23, 2025

The show-building of the city, the ancient, gloomy, wonderful erection where bats lived in the dome and flitted round Kharvani's image, the place where every one must go who needed favors of the priests, the central hub of treason and intrigue, where every plot was hatched and every rumor had its origin the ultimate, mazy, greedy, undisgorging goal of every bribe and every blackmail-wrung rupee!

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East