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have been like,it did not last long. The noise of it died away. Then Jill saw the Tarkaan coming back to the stable:eleven men followed him,dragging eleven bound Dwarfs. Whether the others had all been killed,or whether some of them had got away,was never known.
“Throw them into the shrine of Tash,”said Rishda Tarkaan.
And when the eleven Dwarfs,one after the other,had been flung or kicked into that dark doorway and the door had been shut again,he bowed low to the stable and said:
“These also are for thy burnt offering,Lord Tash.”
And all the Calormenes banged the flats of their swords on their shields and shouted,“Tash! Tash! The great god Tash! Inexorable Tash!”There was no nonsense about“Tashlan”now.
The little party by the white rock watched these doings and whispered to one another. They had found a trickle of water coming down the rock and all had drunk eagerly-Jill and Poggin and the King in their hands,while the four-footed ones lapped from t