In The Temple Of Set

Conan The Rebel, XIII. 

The temple is empty by day. Inside the only unlocked door, a long, cold, dank staircase cut from living rock descends to dimly lit crypts with sinister murals. The low ceiling of the staircase obliges Conan and Daris to bow to full-relief images of serpents above their heads. Conan vows vengeance. There are "...enormous sarcophagi..." (p. 132) and a shrine whose altar bears a bronze lamp of burning oil and a life-sized golden cobra. On the floor, a crystal bowl of milk has been left for a sacred cobra that lives in the crypts. Conan and Daris sleep in the shrine.

There is no battle either with the living cobra or with any returning priests/sorcerers. However, Conan must console Daris who grieves for Jehanan. Earlier, surrounded and outnumbered, Conan and his two companions attacked. They would either escape or die fighting but not surrender. In fact, Jehanan held off the enemy at the mouth of a narrow alley while Conan and Daris escaped. He did not.