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Updated: June 4, 2025
Hands gripped at him from the gloom, arms strove to clasp him, but his dagger-hand was swift and strong. Pike heads leapt at him and were smitten away, axe and gisarm struck, yet found him not, and ever, as he leapt, he smote.
Why, when people assemble without hostile intentions, it should be so imperative to keep the trickling rill of talk running, I find it impossible to imagine. It is a vestige of the old barbaric times, when men murdered at sight for a mere whim; when it was good form to take off your sword in the antechamber, and give your friend your dagger-hand, to show him it was no business visit.
But of a sudden the clamour died to silence, and thereafter from a hundred throats a shout went up: "A Pertolepe! 'Tis Sir Pertolepe!" Now in this moment Beltane laid his dagger-hand about Sir Pertolepe's broad shoulders, and set the point of his dagger 'neath Sir Pertolepe's right ear. "Speak!" quoth Beltane softly, and his dagger-point bit deeper, "speak now as I commanded thee!"
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