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"Garion!" Lelldorin cried "Horsemen -hundreds of them!"

In dismay, Garion looked quickly up the ravine and saw a sudden horde of riders co down the steep cut from the east "Aunt Pol!" he shouted, even as he reached back over his shoulder to draw Iron-grip's great sword

The wave of riders, however, veered sharply just as they reached him and crashed directly into the front ranks of the cultists ere on the verge of breaking through his barrier This new force was coh ularity to them

"Nadraks! By the Gods, they're Nadraks!" Garion heard Barak shout fro here?" Garion muttered, half to himself

"Garion!" Lelldorin exclaimed "That man in the middle of the riders -isn't that Prince Kheldar?"

The new troops charging into the furious ed directly into the faces of the startled cultists ere e dreadful casualties

Once he had committed his horsemen, Silk dropped back to join Garion and Lelldorin in the center of the ravine

"Good day, gentlereeted the"

"Where did you get all the Nadraks?" Garion de Nadrak, of course"

"Why would they want to help us?"

"Because I paid thereat deal of money, Garion"

"How did you find so many so fast?" Lelldorin asked

"Yarblek and I have a fur-trading station just across the border The trappers who brought in their furs last spring were just lying around, drinking and gaot here just in time," Garion said

"I noticed that Those fires of yours were a nice touch"

"Up until the point where they started throater on theet tense"

A few hundred of the trapped cultistsup the steep sides of the gullies and fleeing out onto the barren moors; but for most of their fellows, there was no escape

Barak rode out of the gully where the Rivan troops were e "Do you want to give them the chance to surrender?" he asked Garion

Garion reara had had several days previously "I suppose we should," he said after a ht

"You don't have to, you know," Barak told him "Under the circumstances, no one would blame you if you wiped them out to the very last man"

No," Garion said, "I don't think I really want to do that Tell the ones that are left that we'll spare their lives if they thron their weapons"