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 assembled, and where his adversary already awaited his coming. Mai taunted the younger man and said, “So you are the madman who dares encounter my embrace! I am the Bone-breaker, he who snaps asunder the bones of men. Come, and with one hand I will strangle you.” Kai answered, “You will have to use both hands. You are better at breaking the bones of women than of men.” They rushed together, but with a movement of almost incredible swiftness Kai avoided the rush of his burly opponent and tripping him up threw him to the earth with his arm in such a position that the bone snapped. The elder warrior sprang to his feet and again rushed on his antagonist, but was again tripped by his nimble foe, who, pressing his knee into the back of the Bone-breaker, dislocated his spine. Kaa sprang through the crowd to the side of her lover, and the King taking the girl’s hand in that of the youth said, “She is yours. You have won her well and bravely.”