Adventure Magazine Cover — page 175: what you’re looking at

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174 the fate of the man who was called the Thunderbolt. “Live—if you can,” said the old Con- queror gruffly. He signed to a group of his followers who brought out a cage that had held one of Tamerlane’s leopards. In this cage Bayezid was placed and the door locked. He could no longer look into the eyes of the watchers as he was picked up, with his prison, and carried through the flame-ridden streets of Angora. : Somewhere in the ‘huddle of captives a woman screamed and the other Moslems took up the wail of lament. But Michael did not accept it for himself, giving it, instead, to a friend. He turned his back on the East to seek a galley bound for the Brittany he had not seen for ten years and the castle where his mother waited. So it happened. that the bailiossof Con- tarini and the Maritime Council. of the Signory of Venice reported a curious thing. In the heart of Tatary, they said, some- times called the land of Gog and Magog, not far from the Salt Sea, there was a fine palace in fair groves of date and cypress trees. The ruler of this palace of Fars was a /weird man, with emerald rings on his toes and cloth-of-gold on his broken body. He called himself sometimes the Grand Cham or Khan, and sometimes Bembo the First. ~ * ; J é > (> xy a} Wise ~ is ip. NAN AN cw, m n \ e u Ps 4 i gl ee: i S| Nyy \ on a ‘ " * mn Ca te A . h §. > > ~~“ a Adventure NSS ASA XeS91 NEWS of what had come to pass in (S) Asia spread to the world of Chris- iS) tendom. The wave of Ottoman in- vasion had been broken. In his marble pal- ace standing over the dark waters of the Golden Gate, the Byzantine Emperor held revelry to celebrate the delivery of Constan- tinople. The crusaders of Saint John took new heart; the pilgrim galleys that sailed from Venice were filled- with new voyagers to the Holy Land. Ye Dewm was sung in the cathe- drals of France. But no mention reached France of the share in the victory of An- gora that belonged to an obscure voyager of Brittany. Nor did the mother of Mi- chael Bearn hear the name of her son in the mouths of pilgrims. The Maritime Council of Venice planned new inroads into the field of Oriental trade, and wrote off the moneys advanced to Signor Clavijo and his party asa total loss. . In fact it was recorded in the annals of the council that Clavijo and all those with him were lost. This, however, was not the case. Clavijo lived—outside the knowledge of the coun- cil that he dreaded—in Spain and wrote a book of his travels that was filled with most marvelous tales. And Tamerlane rewarded Michael Bearn. The Tatar monarch bestowed. on him a khanate in northern Persia—Fars, with its palace and riches. : comicbooks;co