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"The Mighty Manslayer" (Adventure magazine, October 15, 1918, later reprinted in The Curved Saber,
one of two Khlit collections published in 1969) follows Khlit, an aging
ex-Cossack of the 16th Century who took off as an independent
adventurer when faced with the prospect of a Cossack retirement, as he
enters the city of Samarkand. A pair of elephant statuettes catch his
eye in the stall of the merchant Mir Turek, who is not interested in
selling them - though he is very interested in Khlit's saber (unraveling
the mystery of the saber is a subplot that is resolved over the course
of Lamb's saga of Khlit) and offers Khlit a deal: Khlit can have the two
elephants as a gesture of good faith if he will agree to escort Mir
Turek and his entourage through the mountains of Central Asia and the
Gobi Desert to the city of Karakorum.
Khlit is suspicious but agrees, in the process buying and freeing a young slave girl named Kerula whom Mir Turek has been abusing. Along the way, Khlit's suspicions regarding Mir Turek and his primary henchman, Fogan Ultai, grow, especially once they welcome a gylong (a term, now out of date I think, referring to a priest or lama, though Lamb uses it in a way that seems to imply that Mir Turek and Fogan Ultain view the gylong as having some degree of knowledge or proficiency with black magic as well) into the party and have him start menacing Kerula (who has tagged along, having nowhere else to go).
Khlit is suspicious but agrees, in the process buying and freeing a young slave girl named Kerula whom Mir Turek has been abusing. Along the way, Khlit's suspicions regarding Mir Turek and his primary henchman, Fogan Ultai, grow, especially once they welcome a gylong (a term, now out of date I think, referring to a priest or lama, though Lamb uses it in a way that seems to imply that Mir Turek and Fogan Ultain view the gylong as having some degree of knowledge or proficiency with black magic as well) into the party and have him start menacing Kerula (who has tagged along, having nowhere else to go).
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