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| 11 | 1869 | It was more protected and View more quotes about less">less susceptible to fire than ladders and stairwells. |
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| 11 | 1866 | Thus, it seemed, there might be different levels accessible from this tube. |
| 11 | 1867 | Its major purpose presumably had to do with the rapid, perhaps secret deployment of troops among levels. |
| 11 | 1868 | Too, obviously it might serve for an emergency evacuation of the surface. |
| 11 | 1869 | It was more protected and less susceptible to fire than ladders and stairwells. |
| 11 | 1870 | It gave a possibility, too, for the immediate securing of loot. |
| 11 | 1871 | Suppose a pursuit was hard-pressed. |
| 11 | 1872 | Might not treasures be safely herein committed? Perhaps a captive free woman dared entertain hopes of rescue, but she then finds herself, clad only in her slave bracelets, whirling helplessly downward, toward what fate she knows not, in the very bowels of the city. |