‘In Baffled Wrath’
Drums of Peril: Chapter 22 of Robert E. Howard’s Hour of the Dragon
Reading from pages 235-44 of the DelRey edition
An illustration of naked men advancing begins the chapter.
The machinations of the final battle are given from the viewpoint of the conspirators, who combined, get almost as much perspective time as Conan in his story, because the barbarian usurper, who became a populist king is the great bane of men who thi…