| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 61 | 998 | I View more quotes about watched">watched Pertinax, with his leashed charges, ascend the gangplank. |
| 61 | 999 | Ramar, with his limping gait, was close behind. |
| 61 | 1000 | I heard a tiny sound, which I could not, in the instant, place. |
| 61 | 1001 | "Beware!" cried a loud, startled voice. |
| 61 | 1002 | Instinctively I dropped to one knee, and a body, dark, robed, hurtled over me, and I glimpsed a flash of metal. |
| 61 | 1003 | Before thinking, I leaped up, and, violently, as though treading on a serpent, thrust down with my boot at the back of the assailant's neck, and it snapped the vertebrae at the base of the skull. |
| 61 | 1004 | One does not long survive such a blow. |