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Detective Steve Harrison - Complete Series. Robert E. Howard
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isbn 9788027238835
Автор произведения Robert E. Howard
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"Well, I'll be damned!" he muttered. "If I hadn't been raised in the South myself, I'd never believe it. When is this sacrifice to take place?"
"Tonight!"
"Eh, what's that?" He remembered Bartholomew's cryptic instructions to his henchmen. "The devil! Where does it happen, and what time?"
"Just before dawn; far back in the swamp."
"I've got to find Woon Shang and stop it!" he exclaimed. "Where is he imprisoned?"
"At the place of the sacrifice; many men guard him. You'd never find your way there. You'd drown and get eaten by the gators. Besides, if you did get there, the people would tear you to pieces."
"You lead me there and I'll take care of the people," he snarled. "You want revenge on Bartholomew. All right; guide me there and I'll see that you get plenty. I've always worked alone," he ruminated angrily, "but the swamp country isn't River Street."
"I'll do it!" Her eyes blazed and her white teeth gleamed in a mask of passion. "I'll guide you to the place of the Altar.' We'll kill him, the yellow dog!"
"How long will it take us to get there?"
"I could go there in an hour, alone. Guiding you, it will take longer. Much longer, the way we must go. You can't travel the road I would take, alone."
"I can follow you anywhere you walk," he grunted, slightly nettled. He glanced at his watch, then extinguished the candle. "Let's get going. Take the shortest route and don't worry about me. I'll keep up."
She caught his wrist in a fierce grasp and almost jerked him out of the door, quivering with the eagerness of a hunting hound.
"Wait a minute!" A thought struck him. "If I go back to the cabin and capture Bartholomew—"
"He will not be there; he is well on his way to the Place of the Altar; better that we beat him there."
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