"Michael Moorcock - Elric 4 - The Vanishing Tower" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moorcock Michael)

ground on shingle. The horses, smelling land, snorted
and moved their hooves. Elric and Moonglum rose to
steady them.

Two seamen leaped into the cold water and brought
the boat up higher. Another patted the neck of Elric's
horse and did not look directly at the albino as he

spoke. "The captain said you would pay me when we
reached the Lormyrian shore, my lord."

Elric grunted and reached under his cloak. He drew
out a jewel that shone brightly through the darkness of
the night. The sailor gasped and stretched out his hand
to take it. "Xiombarg's blood, I have never seen so fine
a gem!"

Elric began to lead the horse into the shallows and
Moonglum hastily followed him, cursing under his
breath and shaking his head from side to side.

Laughing among themselves, the sailors shoved the
boat back into deeper water.

As Elric and Moonglum mounted their horses and
the boat pulled through the darkness towards the ship,
Moonglum said: "That jewel was worth a hundred
times the cost of our passage!"

"What of it?" Elric fitted his feet in his stirrups and
made his horse walk towards a part of the cliff which
was less steep than the rest. He stood up in his stirrups
for a moment to adjust his cloak and settle himself


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more firmly in his saddle. "There is a path here, by the
look of it. Much overgrown."

"I would point out," Moonglum said bitterly, "that
if it were left to you, Lord Elric, we should have no
means of livelihood at all. If I had not taken the pre-
caution of retaining some of the profits made from the
sale of that trireme we captured and auctioned in
Dhakos, we should be paupers now."

"Aye," returned Elric carelessly, and he spurred his
horse up the path that led to the top of the cliff.