krometz

Updated: June 29, 2025

I shall be there at the sunset hour; fail me, and to-morrow you shall die." Krometz knew well with whom he had to deal; he knew if he met Aphiz, as he proposed, there would be a chance for his life, but if he failed him, he feared the unerring aim of his rifle.

Maturin Murray Ballou - The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus