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by Walter Claremartin
Illustrated by Jay Jackson
Kara Yussuf, khan of the Black Sheep Turkomans, was feasting hugely in the mountains of Kopet. The feast of the bakshi, he called it.
In the evergreen gloom of a lofty gorge thousands of campfires licked off the twilight. Around each of the campfires were men. They disposed
themselves busily, sewing boots, whet-
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