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Yet at the last, ere our spearmen had found him, / Yet at the last, ere a sword-thrust could save, / Yet at the last, with his masters around him, / He of the Faith spoke as master to slave; / Yet at the last, tho' the Kafirs had maimed him, / Broken by bondage and wrecked by the reiver,- / Yet at the last, tho' the darkness had claimed him, / He called upon Allah and died a believer. / -_Kizzilbashi_.
"Beg your pardon, Mr. Heldar, but-but isn't nothin' going to happen? " said Mr. Beeton.