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He thrust his sword between two plates of the horny mail.
The Door To Saturn
By Clark Ashton Smith
When Morghi, the high priest of the goddess Yhoundeh, together withtwelve of his most ferocious and efficient underlings, came at morning twilight to seek the infamous heretic, Eibon, in his house of black gneiss on a head-land above the northern main, they were surprised as well as disappointed to find him absent.
Beyond sea and sky the wizard Eibon pursues his outlandish wanderings.
Their surprise was due to the fact that they had every intention of taking him unawares; for all their plots against Eibon had been carried on with meticulous privacy in underground vaults with sound-proof bolted doors; and
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