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The Wanderer laughed like a God, though he deemed that the end was near, and the foes within the camp and the friends without looked on him and wondered.
"Slay him! " cried the foes within, speaking in many tongues. "Slay him! " they cried, and yet they feared the task, but circled round like hounds about a mighty boar at bay.