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JOHN BEAL

Well, you're wrong there. Hussein himself respects that piece of parchment he signed. There's the name of some god or other written on it Hussein is frightened of. Now you
see how things are. That pass is as holy as all the gods that there are in Al Shaldomir. Hussein possesses it. But he owes an
enormous sum to Miss Miralda Clement, and I am here as her agent; and you've come to help me like a great sportsman.


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