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As chieftain of this mongrel Red Brotherhood, Conan is more than ever a
thorn in King Yildiz's sensitive flesh. That henpecked monarch, instead of
strangling his brother Teyaspa in the approved Turanian manner, has been
prevailed upon to keep him cooped up in a castle deep in the Colchian
Mountains, southeast of Vilayet, as a prisoner of the Zaporoskan
brigand Gleg.
To rid himself of another embarrassment, Yildiz sends one of Teyaspa's
strongest partisans, General Artaban, to destroy the priate stronghold at the
mouth of the Zaporoska River. This he does, but he becomes the harried instead
of the harrier.
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