"All right." Conan seated himself on a near-by
bench. "I'll find outdoorbondage her myself, after you'outdoorbondage ve been reduced to a jelly. I outdoorbondage believe outdoorbondage I can outdoorbondage speed up that process by twisting my sword-point around in your ear," he added, extending the weapon experimentally.
"Wait!" Words came in a rush from the captive's ashy lips. "Tascela took her from me. I've never been anything but a puppet in Tascela's outdoorbondage hands."
"Tascela?" snorted Conan, and spat. "Why, the filthy--"
"No, no!" outdoorbondage panted
Olmec. "It's worse than you think. Tascela is old -- centuries old. She renews outdoorbondage her life and her youth by the sacrifice of beautiful young women. That'outdoorbondage s one thing that has reduced the clan to its present state. She will draw the essence of Valeria's life into her own body, and bloom with fresh outdoorbondage vigor and beauty."
"Are the doors locked?" asked Conan, thumbing his sword edge.
"Aye! But I know a way to get into Tecuhltli. Only Tascela and I know, and she thinks me outdoorbondage helpless and you slain. outdoorbondage free me and I swear I will help you rescue Valeria. Without my help you cannot outdoorbondage win into Tecuhltli; for even if you tortured me into revealing the secret, you couldn't work it. Let me go, and we will steal on Tascela and kill her before she can work magic -- before she can fix outdoorbondage her eyes on us. A knife thrown outdoorbondage from behind will do the work. I should have killed her thus long ago, but I feared that without her to aid us the Xotalancas would overcome us. Outdoorbondage she needed my help, too; that's the only reason she let me live this outdoorbondage long. Now neither needs the other, and one outdoorbondage must die. I swear that when we have slain the witch, you and Valeria outdoorbondage shall go free without harm. My people will obey me when Tascela is dead."
Conan stooped and cut the ropes that held the prince, and Olmec slid cautiously from under the great ball and rose, shaking his head like a bull and muttering imprecations as he fingered outdoorbondage his lacerated scalp. Standing outdoorbondage shoulder to shoulder the two men presented a formidable picture of primitive power. Olmec was as tall as Conan, outdoorbondage and outdoorbondage heavier; but there was something repellent about the Tlazitlan, something abysmal and monstrous that contrasted unfavorably with the clean-cut, compact outdoorbondage hardness of the Cimmerian. Conan had discarded the remnants of his tattered, blood-soaked shirt, and stood with his remarkable muscular development impressively revealed. His great shoulders were as broad as those outdoorbondage of Olmec, and more cleanly outlined, and his huge breast arched outdoorbondage with a more impressive sweep to a hard