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THROUGH that same archway--as Miao Shen had indicated--old Juma, the Kirghiz robber chief, and Champela, the mystic lama, had already passed. Scarcely had Shattuck left them, back there in the black desert, when the green light had begun to shine, before they were set upon by a ghostly army. So it had seemed--an army silent and invisible.
Of such stuff are the legends of the Gobi made--based on fact, yet with enough of the weird in the actual happening to make anything seem real.