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Black Kirghiz had killed the white men, appropriating their belongings, it meant the end of his vengeance.

Many riders had passed that point, and Gordon urged greater speed, knowing that if they were spied by the Kirghiz instant pursuit was inevitable.

With his enemies gone from the camp, there was no reason for attacking the Kirghiz now as he had planned.

The wailing of the Kirghiz women, hidden in the thickets, was like the dirging of lost souls.

Perhaps they had not completely eluded the Kirghiz, but he believed it would take some time for even those human bloodhounds to ferret them out, and he did not fear discovery by the inhabitants of Yolgan.

Legend said it was built long ago by a cult of devil worshipers who, driven from their distant homeland, had found sanctuary in this unmapped country, where an isolated branch of the Black Kirghiz, wilder than their kinsmen, roamed as masters.

The timid Kirghiz might skulk about the temple for hours before working up nerve enough to make his devotions to the deity.

Yolgan as well you know, because you brought me, in the guise of a Kirghiz from Issik-kul.

The Kirghiz were working their way up the outer slope on foot from rock to rock, trying to get in to close quarters where their superior numbers would count, but not willing to sacrifice too many lives to get there.

She had sworn to sink the blade in his breast if the Kirghiz came within rifle range, and Yogok sweated with fear and himself urged the band onward.

When his party was moving like insects along the crest of the ridge, the first of the Kirghiz came racing out on the ledge.

Three more got out of control and were carried over the cliff with their riders, and the other Kirghiz retreated into the cave.

If he loitered, the Kirghiz might venture out again, find no one opposing them, and reach the bend of the trail in time to pick him off the causeway.

When he dropped down the slope onto the ledge where Yasmeena stood, white-faced and her nails biting into her pink palms, the Kirghiz had not yet appeared.

Will ye loiter here until the Kirghiz cross the mountain and cut us off?