标题: 《Lost Worlds Cham of the Hills》作者： - Charles R. Tanner 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-10 19:05 标题: 《Lost Worlds Cham of the Hills》作者： - Charles R. Tanner 【EPUB】 CHAM OF THE HILLS A NOVEL OF LOST WORLDSBy Charles R. Tanner Last of their kind were they the remnants of a world gone mad the lean-jawed fighting men whofollowed a strange lost chieftain – Cham of the Hills who had sworn to set his people free CHAPTER ONE Double Trouble He sat on a big moss-covered granite boulder a boulder that had once been thecornerstone of a huge apartment building sheltering a hundred families. It had been asplendid thing of wire cut brick and steel in its day but the steel had long sincerusted and the brick had returned to the mud from whence it had come. Now all thatwas left of the building was this stone block which served the youth as a table. He was eatingthe black bread and cheese which was a square meal to him the food to which he and his peoplehad long been accustomed and he attacked it with zest. He was rudely dressed in the usual attire of a Hillman. He was hatless with a shavenchin and a mop of long red hair tied back with a fillet. The bright red sash he woreseparated the white shirt from worn brown trousers that were tucked into his half-boots. At his side hanging from a leather belt that was strapped on over thesash hung a long sword in a worn and rusty looking scab-bard. The mud on hisboots showed clearly that he had been journeying and it would not have taken an especiallyclear mind to deduce that here was one of the hillman of Dronadac come to seek his fortunein the city of Niarc. His meal finished he wiped his lips on the back of a freckled handthen dusting off the crumbs of bread and cheese from his trousers he set offtoward the city to the south. He had spent the whole morn-ing wandering through thefarmlands of Bronnis and he knew that it would not he very long before he reached thenorthern limits of the city. Presently