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 \nPrice Durand's heart lifted as he heftedthe great axe,Korlu.Ahead,across thedesert,was a forbidding mountain,topped by a castle of marble and gold.  \nWithin that castle,the girl he loved was aprisoner.  \nThere was a scream of fright fromsomewhere beside him.A brilliant fanof rose and topaz light was lifting into theindigo sky ahead.In its rays a pictureappeared.A gigantic yellow snake,vast asa cloud,coiled in the air above themountain.Beside the serpent was awoman.Her body was as yellow as thesnake,and it had something of the sameslender,sinuous grace.Her full lips werevoluptuous and cruel.  \nPrice Durand knew they were fated tomeet in the flesh.It was part of a hugestruggle in which science and sorcery wereweirdly blended,the prize was  \nincalculable—and no man could foreseethe outcome!  \nIMPORTANT!To receive free advance news of exciting newLANCER BOOKS each month send your name and addressto:  \nLANCER BOOKS,INC.·Dept.PDC26 West 47th Street·New York 36,New York  \nc o MP L ET E AN D UN A BR I D GE D  \n# GOLDENBLO0D\n\nby JACK WILLIAMSON  \nLANCER BOOKS·NEW YORK  \nA LANCER BOOK·1964  \nGOLDEN BLOOD  \nCopyright 1933 by Popular Fiction Publishing Company.Lancer Edition published July,1964.All rights reserved.  \nPrinted in the U.S.A.  \n# 1.THE SECRET LEGION\n\nTHE NOONDAY Arabian sun is curiously like moonlight.Theeye-searing brilliance of it,like the moon,blots out all color,inpitiless contrast of black and white.The senses withdraw fromits drenching flame;and the Arab kaylulah or siesta is a time ofsupine surrender to supernal day.  \nPrice Durand,sprawled beneath a sun-faded awning on theschooner's heat-blistered deck,lay in that curious half-sleep inwhich one dreams,yet knows he dreams,and watches hisvisions like a play.And Price,the waking part of his mind,wasastonished at his dream.  \nFor he saw Anz,the lost city of the legend,where it stoodhidden in the desert's heart.Mighty walls girdled its proudtowers,and away from their foot stretched the green palmgroves of the great oasis.He saw the gates of Anz open in thedream,massive valves of bronze.A man rode out upon agigantic white camel,a man in gleaming mail of gold,whocarried a heavy ax of yellow metal.  \nThe warrior rode out of the gate,and through the tall palmsof the oasis,and into the tawny dunes of the sand-desert.Hewas reaching for something,and his fingers kept tight upon thehelve of the great ax.And the white camel was afraid.  \nA fly came buzzing about Price's head,and he sat up,yawn-ing.A damned queer dream,that!He had seen the old city asvividly as if it had actually been before his eyes.His subcon-scious mind must have been at work on the legend:there hadbeen nothing in the story about a man in golden armor.  \nWell,it was too hot to worry about a dream,too hot to thinkat all.He mopped the perspiration from his face,and staredaround him with eyes narrowed against the blinding glare.  \nThe Arabian Sea blazed beneath the merciless sun,a planeof molten glass.The blazing sky was tinged with copper;dry,stinging heat drove down from it.A tawny line of sand markedthe northern horizon,where the desolate shifting dunes of theRub'Al Khali met the incandescent sea.The schooner Inez,asfurtively sinister as her swart Macanese master,lay motionlessupon the hot,steely ocean,a mile offshore,her drooping,dingysails casting narrow and comfortless shadows upon greasydecks.  \nPrice Durand,lounging beneath his tattered awning,was  \nsaturated with the haunting loneliness of hot sea and burningsand.The brooding,shadowy hostility of the unknown desertso near flowed about him like a tangible current,silent,sinister.  \nHis emotions had become oddly divided,he was thinking,inthe long days since the schooner had left the Red Sea,as if twoforces in him were struggling for mastery.  \nPrice Durand,the world-weary soldier of fortune,wasafraid of this cruelest and least known of the deserts of theworld,","cbCaihaFo7bD0iim","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihaFo7bD0iim","pdf",31885596,164,"English","# 1. 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