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| 19 | 25 | I had View more quotes about expected">expected that he would be accompanied by askaris, whom he would set upon me, to slay me, once I had either killed Shaba or obtained the ring. |
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| 19 | 22 | "As few as possible must know of our deed," he had said. |
| 19 | 23 | "Yes," I had said. |
| 19 | 24 | But surely he would not trust me to return the ring to him. |
| 19 | 25 | I had expected that he would be accompanied by askaris, whom he would set upon me, to slay me, once I had either killed Shaba or obtained the ring. |
| 19 | 26 | But I saw none. |
| 19 | 27 | It had been my hope, of course, and a risk which Msaliti, for his part, would have had to accept, that I might, with the ring, elude his askaris, even if the room were surrounded. |
| 19 | 28 | The odds, had I the ring, would, I think, have been in my favor. |