But they attempted no reprisal, nor did they accept Conan's urgent
invitation to approach within reach of the bloody chain in his hand.
Presently, grunting in their ape-like speech, they lifted the senseless black
and bore him out like a sack of wheat, arms and legs dangling. They used his
key to lock the door behind them, but did not remove it from the gold chain
that fastened it to his girdle. They took the torch with them, and as they
moved up the corridor the darkness slunk behind them like an animate thing.
Their soft padding footsteps died away, with the glimmer of their torch, and
darkness and silence remained unchallenged
To see this as against all blacks rather than these few blacks apparent in this story seems to me to perhaps be in error. Just because these few blacks have an ape like speech is not necessarily racist or even derogatory unless one thinks apes as a lesser creature.
