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Book 4. (347 results) Nomads of Gor

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19 1 Harold Finds a Wench I had no difficulty finding Harold.
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19 110 "It is I," said Harold, "Harold the Tuchuk".
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20 98 "Who are you?" "Do not ask questions," snapped Harold, "here is the girl—take her!" The guard shrugged and as he took Hereena from Harold I winced as the young man felled him with a blow that might have broken the skull of a bosk.
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20 111 "What is going on here?" "I am Harold of the Tuchuks," responded Harold of the Tuchuks.
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20 129 "I am Harold of the Tuchuks," he said, "I am a skilled tarnsman—I have ridden over a thousand tarns—I have spent more time in the tarn saddle than most men on their feet—I was conceived on tarnback—I was born on tarnback—I eat tarns—fear me! I am Harold of t...
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27 18 Beside me, clad not Kajir but in the brief leather of one of the Wagon Girls, though collared, stood Elizabeth Cardwell; similarly attired and collared, I noted, standing a bit behind Harold of the Tuchuks, I saw the fiery Hereena; she was perhaps the only one of all the girls of the Wagon Peoples t...
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27 181 "Why is it," I asked Harold, "that he so spared Turia?" "His mother was Turian," said Harold.
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8 239 He was called Harold, which is not a Tuchuk name, nor a name used among the Wagon Peoples, though it is similar to some of the Kassar names.
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8 257 I dismissed the girl, Hereena, and the young man, Harold, from my mind.
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10 204 Among the Tuchuks, though dismounted, I saw the young man Harold, he whom Hereena of the First Wagon had so sorely insulted at the time of the wagering with Conrad and Albrecht.
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10 252 I saw Hereena notice the young man Harold among the warriors and she pointed her finger imperiously at him, gesturing him to her.
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11 182 It was too bad, I thought, but at least I supposed there would be one fellow among the wagons, the young man Harold, he whom the girl had so abused, he who had not yet won the Courage Scar, who would be just as pleased as not that she, with all her contempt and spleen, was now delightfully salted aw...
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15 1 Harold Turia, to some extent, now lay under siege, though the Tuchuks alone could not adequately invest the city.
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15 99 * * * * I searched among the wagons long before I found, sitting cross-legged beneath a wagon, wrapped in a worn bosk robe, his weapons at hand folded in leather, the young man whose name was Harold, the blond-haired, blue-eyed fellow who had been so victimized by Hereena, she of the First Wagon, wh...
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15 114 "That is interesting," said Harold, "I, too, am going to Turia".
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15 120 "What is it you wish in Turia?" inquired Harold.
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15 124 "I know of it," said Harold, "it was stolen from the wagon of Kutaituchik".
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15 129 "Where do you think this golden sphere will be lying about?" asked Harold.
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15 131 "That is interesting," said Harold, "for I had thought I might try chain luck in the Pleasure Gardens of a Turian merchant named Saphrar".
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15 133 "It is possible," granted Harold.
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15 135 "They are poison teeth," remarked Harold, "a Turian affectation—but quite deadly, being filled with the venom of the ost".
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15 137 "I think that is a good idea," granted Harold.
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15 142 As far as I could gather Harold had little more than the clothes on his back, a boskhide robe, his weapons and his supper.
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15 143 "You will be slain in Turia," said Harold, finishing his meat and wiping his mouth in Tuchuk fashion on the back of his right sleeve.
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16 1 I Find the Golden Sphere It was not a pleasant path to Turia that Harold the Tuchuk showed to me, but I followed him.
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16 5 "I learned in Turia," said Harold, "in the public baths where I was once a slave".
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16 17 "Here," said Harold, pointing to a cut between two rocks, only about eight inches wide, through which from some underground source a flow of water was emerging, entering and adding to the small stream at which, some four pasangs from the wagons, Aphris and Elizabeth had often drawn water for the wag...
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16 18 Not speaking further, Harold, a quiva in his teeth, a rope and hook on his belt, squeezed through and disappeared.
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16 22 At last, at a given point in the tunnel, Harold disappeared beneath the surface and I followed him.
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16 24 Here, Harold disappeared again under the water and once more I followed him.
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16 32 I heard Harold's voice in the darkness, sounding hollow against the tiled walls and over the water.
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16 40 Also, I was not clear how Harold, supposing him to be successful in his shopping amongst the ferns and flowers of Saphrar's Pleasure Gardens, intended to conduct his squirming prize along this unscenic, difficult and improbable route.
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16 52 "Then," said Harold, "I must deceive it".
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16 54 "It will be easy," said Harold.
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16 60 "It should be worth the Courage Scar," said Harold from above, "don't you think so?" "What?" I asked.
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16 68 I decided that I would nominate both Harold and myself for an Idiocy Scar and let the Tuchuks take their pick.
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16 70 Harold had already taken up a position, looking about, near the edge of the well.
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16 72 I joined Harold.
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16 78 "The last time I was here," said Harold, "was over five years ago".
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16 85 Harold did not seem to notice or mind this inconvenience.
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16 89 "Of course," said Harold.
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16 92 "On the other hand," said Harold, "I might like to stop by the baths".
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16 99 "If you wish," said Harold.
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16 102 "Of course," said Harold.
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16 106 Harold smiled.
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16 115 Arm in arm, Harold and I strode under the archway leading from the well yard.
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16 118 Neither Harold nor myself could move an arm or hand and, locked in the net, we stood like fools until a guardsman kicked the feet out from under us and we rolled, entrapped in the wire, at his feet.
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16 125 "Was this," I asked Harold, "a part of your plan?" He grinned, pressing against the net, trying its strength.
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16 129 * * * * Harold and I had been fastened in a Turian slave bar, a metal bar with a collar at each end and, behind the collar, manacles which fasten the prisoner's hands behind his neck.
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16 146 Through the metal bar I felt a reaction on the part of Harold.
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16 152 "Who is the traitor to the Wagon Peoples?" asked Harold.
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16 154 "Of course," said Harold, "I see now—the quiva—he is Paravaci, naturally".
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16 156 "I have often wondered," said Harold, "where the Paravaci obtained their riches".
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16 167 "Are you truly of the Clan of Torturers?" asked Harold of the hooded man.
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16 169 "Do you think," asked Harold, "you will be able to make me cry for mercy?" "If I choose," said the man.
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16 170 "Would you care to wager?" asked Harold.
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16 177 I glanced, however, at Harold, and it seemed he had suddenly paled.
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16 233 "Fat little slave," said Harold.
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16 253 "No one has spoken to you, Slave," remarked Harold.
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16 254 "Let me have this one," begged the Paravaci of Saphrar, pointing the tip of his quiva at Harold.
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17 1 The Yellow Pool of Turia At the edge of the Yellow Pool of Turia Harold and I stood, now freed of the slave bar, but with wrists tied behind our backs.
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17 22 Harold and I, though bound, were each held by two men-at-arms, and another four, with crossbows, had accompanied us.
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17 57 Harold and his captors, as well, were not behind the barricade.
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17 68 "Let me be sent first to the pool," said Harold.
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18 29 "You fat, filthy urt!" cried Harold, struggling in his bonds with the two men-at-arms who held him.
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18 82 I ran over the iron framework until, judging by the distance and curve of the dome, I had reached a point above where Harold and I had waited at the edge of the pool.
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18 87 Harold, wrists still bound behind his back, hurled himself against two men and, screaming, they pitched backward into the Yellow Pool of Turia.
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18 94 "Down!" cried Harold, and I fell to the floor barely sensible of the silverish quiva of the Paravaci speeding overhead.
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18 100 I stepped to Harold and with one motion severed the bonds that constrained him.
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18 108 I had the guardsman's sword and my quiva, Harold his quiva alone.
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18 118 I could also see Harold bounding along, from roof to roof, in the light of the three moons.
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19 9 "The streets will be searched," puffed Harold, "—immediately—by all the guardsmen and men-at-arms in the city".
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19 15 "You are aware, of course," I mentioned, "that the Pleasure Gardens of so rich a man as Saphrar of Turia may contain a large number of female slaves—not all of whom might be trusted to keep silent—and some of whom will undoubtedly notice something as unusual as two strange warriors wan...
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19 21 Suddenly there seemed to me a real possibility in Harold's plan.
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19 31 "For the time," said Harold, "let us rest".
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19 44 "I have rested," said Harold.
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19 55 "Doubtless," said Harold, getting to his feet, as though he must now be back to work.
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19 61 I then followed Harold along one of the smooth, stone paths leading among the trees, brushing our way through the clusters of blossoms, skirting the edge of the nearer blue pool.
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19 66 Harold left the walk and stepped carefully to avoid trampling a patch of talenders, a delicate yellow flower, often associated in the Gorean mind with love and beauty.
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19 70 Harold inspected them, but did not seem satisfied.
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19 75 I immediately began to worry that that girl would be the one who would strike Harold's eye.
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19 77 Soon Harold had left the central hall and was making his way down a long, carpeted, lamp-hung corridor.
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19 86 Harold looked the girls over and then he went to the low table and poured himself a drink, Ka-la-na wine by the smell of it.
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19 90 Harold was now fishing about, still chewing on the fruit, in a wooden chest at one end of the table.
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19 100 "This is the one," Harold said.
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19 102 Harold tossed the emptied, collapsed shell of the larma fruit into a corner of the room and whipped one of the scarves from his belt.
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19 105 Hereena struggled to her feet, her head down, and Harold had stepped behind her, pulling her wrists behind her back and tying them with the scarf in his hand.
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19 107 "You are being abducted," Harold informed her.
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19 115 "I chanced by," said Harold.
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19 118 Then she acted as though she had not noticed that she had been perfectly secured, that she was his prisoner, the prisoner of Harold of the Tuchuks.
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19 123 "Oh, come now," said Harold.
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19 127 "You are only a little Turian slave girl," said Harold, "who has taken my fancy".
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19 129 Then Harold had his hands in her mouth, holding it open.
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19 135 "It is easy to see," said Harold, "why she was not chosen First Stake".
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19 140 Then Harold removed his hands deftly, narrowly missing what would have been a most savage bite.
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19 142 "On the other hand," said Harold, "all things considered—she is a not unattractive little wench".
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19 144 "I shall enjoy owning you," said Harold, patting her head.
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19 146 Harold turned to me.
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19 149 "Do not fret, little Slave Girl," said Harold to Hereena.
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19 152 Harold stood by, patiently, making no attempt to interfere.
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19 156 "No," said Harold.
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19 158 "No," said Harold.
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19 160 "No," said Harold.
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19 163 "Never! Never! Never!" "That is interesting," said Harold.
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19 168 "Of course," said Harold, "though you are Tuchuk, you are also female".
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19 171 "Upon occasion," granted Harold.
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19 173 Harold thought for a moment.
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19 179 "I do not choose to do so," remarked Harold.
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19 182 "I gather you intend to put your plan into effect," said Harold.
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19 184 "Do so," said Harold.
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19 186 My heart nearly stopped but Harold, at the moment just before the girl could scream, popped one of the scarves into her mouth, wadding it up and shoving it between her teeth.
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19 188 "I, too," Harold informed her, "had a plan—a counter-plan".
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19 190 "My plan," said Harold, "which I have now put into effect, was clearly superior to yours".
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19 193 "Yes," said Harold, "clearly superior".
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19 196 Harold then lifted her from her feet and, as I winced, simply dropped her on the floor.
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19 203 In a short while Harold, carrying the struggling Hereena, and I had retraced our steps to the central hall and descended the steps of the porch and returned by means of the curving walks between the shrubs and pools to the flower tree by means of which we had originally entered the Pleasure Gardens ...
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20 1 The Keep "By now," said Harold, "guardsmen will have searched the roofs, so it should be safe to proceed across them to our destination".
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20 5 "That would be," suggested Harold, "the keep".
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20 10 I went part way up the tree and was handed the girl, and then Harold would go up above me and I would hoist her up a way to him, and then I would pass him, and so on.
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20 13 "Perhaps," puffed Harold, "you would like to go back and get another wench—one for yourself?" "No," I said.
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20 17 "Be careful," advised Harold.
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20 18 I was about to respond when I heard a stifled scream of horror and saw that Harold had hurled Hereena in my direction, across the space between the tree and the wall.
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20 21 Perched on the wall, holding the girl with one hand to prevent her tumbling off, I watched Harold springing up and down and then he was leaping towards me.
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20 24 "Quite right," wheezed Harold, "as I myself earlier pointed out".
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20 28 Harold laid Hereena down on the roof to one side and sat cross-legged for a minute, breathing heavily.
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20 32 Harold and I then got up and, with Hereena under one of his arms, we circumspectly made our way from roof to roof until we saw the keep, rising like a dark cylinder against one of Gor's three moons.
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20 45 "There's one of them!" "Hurry!" I cried to Harold.
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20 48 Then Harold had sprung down beside me on the bridge, seizing the hand rope to keep from tumbling off.
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20 51 Harold's arm flashed past me and the fellow stood suddenly still, then his knees gave slowly way beneath him and he fell to the flooring of the porch, a quiva hilt protruding from his chest, the crossbow clattering beside him.
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20 52 "Go ahead," I commanded Harold.
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20 56 Harold sped along the bridge, Hereena in his arms, and disappeared into the keep.
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20 64 Inside I could hear a startled guard demanding to know who Harold was.
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20 65 "Is it not obvious!" Harold was yelling at him.
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20 67 "A wench from the Pleasure Gardens of Saphrar, you fool!" Harold was crying at him.
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20 69 "You are dull, are you not!" demanded Harold.
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20 79 The room in which I found myself contained an unconscious guard, but no further sign of Harold or Hereena.
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20 81 Then I emerged in the chamber below the roof of the keep and there found Harold, sitting on the bottom rung of the last ladder, breathing heavily, Hereena lying squirming at his feet.
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20 82 "I have been waiting for you," said Harold, gasping.
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20 84 "My plan exactly," said Harold, "but first should you not teach me to master the tarn?" I heard Hereena moan with horror and she began to struggle madly to free herself of the scarves that bound her.
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20 86 "That is all well and good," responded Harold, "but can you not impart certain important information relating to the matter in a briefer span?" "Come to the roof!" I cried.
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20 87 I preceded Harold up the ladder and thrust up the trap admitting us to the roof.
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20 91 I was ready to engage the first guard, half on the ladder, but Harold's head emerged from the opening behind me.
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20 95 "This is the girl," Harold was saying.
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20 99 Deftly, before she had fallen, Harold nipped Hereena from the guard's arms.
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20 103 "You there!" cried Harold.
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20 106 "Come here!" cried Harold.
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20 109 "Below," Harold informed him.
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20 113 "Are you not Ho-bar?" inquired Harold.
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20 116 "Is he Turian?" "I had hoped to find Ho-bar," said Harold, "but perhaps you will do".
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20 118 "Here," said Harold.
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20 122 "Just hold her," said Harold.
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20 125 Harold once more had Hereena over his shoulder and was boldly approaching the tarns.
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20 127 Harold dropped Hereena to the floor of the roof and strode to the first tarn.
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20 130 Any instant I expected it to pick Harold from the roof with its beak, bite him in two and eat the pieces.
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20 132 Harold turned to face me.
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20 141 On the other hand Harold seemed quite pleased that she was beside herself with terror.
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20 142 The slave rings on the tarn saddle are similar to those on the kaiila saddle and in a trice Harold, using the thongs streaming from the slave rings, one on each side of the saddle, had bound the girl on her back across the saddle in front of him.
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20 145 "What is the matter?" asked Harold.
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20 149 "Aiii!" I heard Harold cry, and could well imagine what had happened to his stomach.
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20 151 Then I hauled on the one-strap and seeing Harold's bird wheeling about in circles against one of the Gorean moons sped to his side.
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20 162 Risking arrows, I, followed by Harold, descended to alight among the wagons.
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21 268 "You dull fool!" "Oh mercy, Master!" whined Harold of the Tuchuks.
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21 274 "Close the gates!" "I think you will find," said Harold, "that my wagon is in the way".
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21 278 Harold had withdrawn his quiva from the breast of the officer.
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21 287 I heard Harold's voice behind me.
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21 290 "I had a friend," Harold was saying, "whose name was Tarl Cabot.
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21 293 "And quite some time ago," Harold added.
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21 297 "There is a certain resemblance between yourself and my friend Tarl Cabot," Harold was saying, "save that your swordplay is decidedly inferior to his.
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21 302 "It would be well to be vigilant also on the right," remarked Harold.
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21 304 "It would not have been necessary to tell Tarl Cabot that," Harold said.
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21 307 "I sometimes wonder where old Tarl Cabot is," Harold said wistfully.
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21 311 "It would now be well," said Harold, "to take refuge under the wagon".
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21 321 Harold, on his hands and knees, was looking into the eyes of the girl who knelt, too, numb with terror.
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21 322 "I am Harold of the Tuchuks," he was telling her.
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21 326 "Ah, well," said Harold, repinning her veil.
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21 330 "When you leave the wagon," Harold told her, "you might be stopped by Tuchuks—nasty fellows—who would like to put your pretty little throat in a collar—you understand?" She nodded, Yes.
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21 331 "So you tell them that you are already the slave of Harold the Tuchuk, understand?" She nodded again.
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21 332 "It will be dishonest on your part," said Harold apologetically, "but these are hard times".
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22 12 Harold, after the Tuchuks had entered the city, insisted on squiring the young woman home whom he had encountered under the wagon, and, for good measure, the wine vendor and potter as well.
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22 19 When I lifted my head from the fountain in the Turian street Harold cried out in amazement, "Why you ARE Tarl Cabot!" "Yes," I had responded.
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22 32 I then wished to proceed immediately to the palace of Phanius Turmus, where Kamchak had set up his headquarters, to place myself at his disposal, but Harold insisted rather on trooping about the city, here and there examining pockets of Turian resistance.
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22 43 "Turian women," said Harold, "taken by Tuchuks".
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22 48 Naturally I inquired of Harold, shortly after entering, the meaning of the guards' salutation.
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22 49 I had expected to be challenged and then perhaps, if all went well, wrangled inside on some stratagem dreamed up by Harold on the spur of the moment.
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22 50 "It means," remarked Harold, looking about the courtyard, "that you have the rank of a Commander of a Thousand".
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22 52 "It is a gift of Kamchak," said Harold.
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22 55 "I of course recommended the same rank for myself," said Harold, "inasmuch as I am the one who really carried the thing off".
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22 57 "You do not, of course, have a Thousand to command," pointed out Harold.
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22 64 "Korobans, though," remarked Harold, "are probably more impressed with such things than Tuchuks".
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22 65 By this time I had followed Harold over to a corner of the courtyard wall, which was heaped high, banked into the corner, with precious metals, plates, cups; bowls of jewels; necklaces and bracelets; boxes of coins and, in heavy, wooden crates, numerous stacked cubes of silver and gold, each stamped...
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22 71 "As a commander," said Harold, "you may take what you want of any of this".
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22 80 "You are the commander of a Thousand," said Harold.
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22 101 I sprang up the steps, followed by Harold, and we soon found ourselves in the marbled entry hall of the palace.
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22 123 "Neither did the Turians," remarked Harold, reaching over the shoulder of one of the high council of Turia and taking a candied verr chop.
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22 159 Only he, Harold and I remained in the great throne room.
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22 162 "By whom?" cried Harold.
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23 2 On one of these wagons, with the top removed, were the two tarns Harold and I had stolen from the roof of Saphrar's keep.
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23 5 Harold and I, mounted on kaiila, raced toward these wagons.
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23 7 Harold and I would take a tarn each and he would go to the Kassars and I to the Kataii, begging their help.
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23 9 Then, on the path to the main Tuchuk encampment, Harold and I were each to join our Thousand, subsequently doing what we could to protect the bosk and wagons.
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23 47 Within perhaps the Ahn a grim, angry Harold brought his tarn down between the two columns, that of his Thousand and of mine.
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23 52 Like my own mission to the Kataii, Harold's mission to the Kassars had been fruitless.
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23 59 Harold took his Thousand into the Wagons, engaging the Paravaci wherever he could find them.
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23 86 That night I met with Harold, whose men had been fighting among the wagons.
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23 88 Taking council with Harold, we dispatched a rider to Kamchak in Turia, informing him of the situation, and that we had little hope of holding out.
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23 89 "It will make little difference," said Harold.
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23 91 It seemed to me that what Harold said was true, and that there was little point in discussing it much further.
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23 93 Both Harold and I then spoke with our men, each issuing orders that any man with us who wished might now withdraw from the wagons and rejoin the main forces in Turia.
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23 99 Harold and I determined to appear to meet the Paravaci in the open—before the wagons—and then, when they charged, to withdraw among the wagons, and close the wagons on their attacking front, halting the charge, then at almost point-blank range hopefully taking heavy toll of their force...
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23 113 My men and those of Harold had now been decimated and there were few that had not lost blood.
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23 115 Once again Harold and I issued our orders that any wishing to depart might now do so.
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23 119 "It is the Paravaci main body," said Harold.
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23 124 I stood with Harold on a planked platform fixed across the wagon box of the wagon at our center, whose domed framework had been torn away.
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23 127 "We have done well," said Harold.
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23 130 "I wish you well," said Harold.
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23 134 Harold and I, and those of our men that remained, stood with the wagons, watching the nearing waves of warriors, observing the moment when the chain face guards of the Paravaci helmets were thrown forward, the moment when the lances, like that of a single man, were leveled.
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23 136 "Listen!" cried Harold.
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23 138 "Bosk horns!" cried Harold.
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23 142 "Look!" cried Harold, sweeping his hand to the left and right.
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23 147 "Look!" cried Harold.
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23 150 "Kataii!" screamed Harold, hugging me.
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23 153 "We might help," remarked Harold.
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23 167 "For a Kataii and a Kassar," said Harold, "you two are not bad fellows".
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23 180 "And their goods and women?" inquired Harold.
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23 184 "You are wise," said Harold.
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23 188 Harold and I sent a rider back to Kamchak with news of the victory.
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23 190 In the morning the warriors remaining of the two Thousands who had ridden with Harold and I would, with the help of other Tuchuks surviving among the wagons, move the wagons and the bosk from the field.
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23 193 In the thinking of both Harold and myself, that decision was properly Kamchak's.
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23 200 Harold, willingly enough, volunteered to remain in the camp until the commander of a Thousand could be sent from Turia to relieve him.
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24 5 The wagon carrying Harold's tarn and its guard accompanied it.
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24 21 On the day following my arrival in Turia, Harold, on tarnback, relieved at his request of the command of the wagons and herds, joined me in the palace of Phanius Turmus.
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24 22 During the day and night, taking hours of sleep where we could, sometimes on the rugs of the palace of Phanius Turmus, sometimes on the stones of the streets by watch fires, Harold and I, at Kamchak's orders, performed a variety of tasks, sometimes joining in the fighting, sometimes acting as liaiso...
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24 59 Harold and I chewed on some bosk meat roasted over a fire built on the marble floor of the palace of Phanius Turmus.
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24 61 "Most of the people," Harold was saying, "are out of the city now".
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24 63 "Kamchak will close the gates soon," said Harold, "and then we shall get to work on Saphrar's house and that tarn roost of Ha-Keel's".
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24 70 "Are you going to spend the night here?" asked Harold.
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24 77 But Harold did not seem particularly shattered, and I sighed.
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24 80 "I suppose not," said Harold.
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24 92 I merely looked at him, wondering if it were merely Harold the Tuchuk at work again.
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24 96 "At that time, of course," said Harold, "our wagons were not painted red, nor filled with booty and rich things, for we were not then commanders".
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24 100 "But for what else?" asked Harold.
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24 107 "But the golden sphere is worthless," said Harold.
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24 110 Harold shrugged.
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24 113 "But you were successful," insisted Harold.
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24 115 "To a Tuchuk," said Harold, "success is courage—that is the important thing—courage itself—even if all else fails—that is success".
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24 117 "There is something here I think you do not realize," said Harold.
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24 125 "When I have time," said Harold, "I will call one from the clan of Scarers and have the scar affixed.
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24 128 "Perhaps you would like me to call him for you as well?" inquired Harold.
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24 132 "All right," said Harold, "it is well known you are only a Koroban, and not a Tuchuk".
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24 135 "Well," said Harold, "I am tired—and I am going to my wagon—I have a little slave there I am anxious to put to work".
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24 137 "I gathered not," said Harold, "seeing that you apparently spent the night after the battle comfortably resting on the floor of Kamchak's wagon—I looked around for you that night—but didn't find you".
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24 141 "You would have found out long ago," said Harold, "had you not rushed off to Turia again immediately after our return—when the wagons were moving toward Ta-Thassa.
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24 145 "She was not in the sleen cage the morning of our return from Turia with the tarns," said Harold.
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24 147 "Nor was the little barbarian," said Harold.
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24 157 "Harold the Tuchuk," I said, "I am tired".
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24 163 I had taken, as a share of battle loot, a hundred and ten bottles of paga and forty bottles of Ka-la-na wine from Tyros, Cos and Ar, but these I had distributed to my crossbowmen, with the exception of one bottle of paga which Harold and I had split some two nights ago.
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24 168 I looked at Harold and grinned.
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24 170 "Properly so," remarked Harold and leaped to his kaiila, untethering the beast and springing to its saddle.
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24 174 Muttering I jerked loose the reins of my kaiila from the column to which I had tethered it, leaped to the saddle and raced after Harold, not wishing to be left behind somewhere in the streets of Turia or among the dark wagons beyond the gate, pounding on wagon after wagon to find which one might be ...
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24 177 Harold was sitting there calmly on the back of his kaiila, a reproachful look on his face.
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24 181 "But it is the wagon of a commander," said Harold, as though puzzled, "so anyone could tell you where it is".
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24 183 "I am not surprised," said Harold.
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24 186 "I was not there at the time," said Harold.
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24 190 "Look out!" cried Harold.
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24 194 "There!" cried Harold.
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24 197 "It is," cried Harold decisively, "the side of a brick building!" I turned to look at him.
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24 209 "I wish you well," said Harold.
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24 213 "You certainly have a fast kaiila," remarked Harold.
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24 215 "As it was," said Harold, "I scarcely beat you".
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24 217 "Oh?" asked Harold.
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24 219 "How do you know I didn't beat you?" "Well," said Harold, "I don't know—but that would certainly seem unlikely, would it not?" "Yes," I said, "I suppose so".
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24 220 "Actually," said Harold, "I am uncertain who won".
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24 231 I watched Harold ride towards his wagon, whistling a Tuchuk tune.
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25 25 Harold had said that Elizabeth Cardwell had been given by Kamchak to a warrior.
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26 2 Kamchak, Harold and I stood with several others on the roof of a building across from the compound.
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26 8 On the way to the compound I had met Harold and together we had eaten some dried bosk meat and drunk water, from one of the commissary wagons attached to one of Hundreds in the city.
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26 10 The tarns that Harold and I had stolen from Saphrar's keep several days ago had both been brought into the city and were nearby, for it was thought that such might be needed, if only to convey reports from one point to another.
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26 12 I heard someone chewing nearby and noted that Harold, who had thrust some strips of bosk meat from the commissary wagon in his belt, was busily engaged, quiva in hand, with cutting and eating the meat.
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26 23 "My own recommendation," Harold was saying, "would be first to fly my tarn cavalry over the walls, clearing them with thousands of arrows, and then, in a second wave, to fly dozens of ropes of warriors to the roofs of the main buildings, to seize them and burn the others".
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26 25 "That is what is wrong with my recommendation," granted Harold, chewing.
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26 27 "No recommendation is perfect," said Harold.
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26 56 "The thousand tarnsmen of Ha-Keel," said Harold, "left before dawn for Port Kar.
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26 59 "They were well paid," said Harold, "with Turian gold—of which substance we have a great deal".
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26 61 "More alone than he knows," remarked Harold.
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26 95 Harold and I, on foot, accompanied him.
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26 126 In the main hall he looked about and then, Harold and I following, and the man with the two sleen, and the slaves with gold, and his archers and other men, he began to walk his kaiila forward, across the broad marble tiles, following the terrified Saphrar of Turia.
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26 142 Kamchak now gave his kaiila to a subordinate and, on foot, carrying torch and quiva, began to prowl down the passage, beside him the two snarling sleen, behind him Harold and I, and the rest of his men, several with torches, even the slaves with gold.
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26 148 Harold tossed a pebble into the opening and it took about ten Ihn before we heard it strike water far below.
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26 154 I recognized it immediately, for it was the room in which Harold and I had been brought prisoner before Saphrar of Turia.
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26 158 I heard Harold cry out with delight at the sight of the fellow, and the man turned to face us, a quiva in his hand.
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26 159 Beneath his black mask I wager he turned white at the sight of Harold of the Tuchuks.
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26 195 "Mine is the Paravaci!" cried Harold.
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26 197 Harold leaped forward.
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26 199 At a gesture from Kamchak Harold stepped back, angry, a quiva in his hand.
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26 256 He then waved them, and the others, with the exception of Harold and myself, and the sleen keeper and his animals, back several yards.
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26 261 "I will shatter the golden sphere!" Slowly Kamchak, and Harold and I, and the sleen keeper, dragging the two sleen, moved backwards.
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26 289 I heard Harold say, "It is Tolnus".
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26 297 I was conscious of Kamchak now standing near to me, and behind him Harold.
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26 312 "It smells," Harold was saying.
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26 320 "Look," said Harold, thrusting his hand under my face.
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26 325 Harold got up and went to the shattered, stiff shards of the egg.
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26 374 Suddenly like an explosion and conflagration the pool erupted into flames and Kamchak and I and Harold and the others shielded our faces and eyes and withdrew before the fury of the fire.
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26 380 * * * * Harold and I, and the others followed him.
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26 400 "Long ago," said Harold, nearby, "I gave up expecting more of a Koroban".
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26 408 "What would have happened to the body?" asked Harold, and it seemed he was serious.
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26 416 Once he turned to Harold.
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26 418 "I would enjoy that," remarked Harold.
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26 423 "Why do Priest-Kings not do their own errands?" asked Harold.
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26 426 "Someday," said Harold, "you must speak to me of Priest-Kings".
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26 453 Then you went with Harold to the city, and so I knew that to seize the egg against such overwhelming odds you were ready to give your life.
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26 505 Kamchak and Harold laughed.
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26 512 "And courage," added Harold, "and such things".
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26 516 "By the way, Ubar," asked Harold, winking at me, "what was it you paid for Aphris of Turia?" Kamchak threw him a look that might have been a quiva in the heart.
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26 518 "Albrecht of the Kassars," remarked Harold, casually, "picked her up while raiding the Paravaci camp".
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26 521 "What did you pay for her return?" inquired Harold, with great innocence.
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26 524 Harold put his hand over his mouth and turned away, sniggering, and Kamchak's head seemed to sink angrily into his shoulders.
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26 526 "It is hard to outwit a Tuchuk in a bargain," remarked Harold, turning back, rather confidently.
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26 528 Well did I recall how Kamchak had made Albrecht of the Kassars pay dearly for the return of his little darling, Tenchika, and how he had roared with laughter because the Kassar had paid such a price, obviously having allowed himself to care for a mere slave girl, and she a Turian at that! "I would g...
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26 533 "I have heard," said Harold, "that she does nothing but sing around the bosk and in the wagon all day—I myself would probably beat a girl who insisted on making all that noise".
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26 535 "He is, of course," observed Harold, "quite handsome".
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26 537 "At any rate," continued Harold, "I know that he would have upheld the honor of the Tuchuks in such matters—and driven a hard bargain with the unwary Kassar".
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26 541 He looked at Harold, who smiled innocently and questioningly, and then at me, who was only honestly curious.
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26 545 Harold began to pound his saddle and howl with laughter.
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26 551 "Nonetheless, Cabot," remarked Harold, "do you not think, all things considered, he is on the whole—albeit unwise in certain matters—an excellent Ubar?" "On the whole," I agreed, "albeit perhaps unwise in certain matters—an excellent Ubar".
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26 552 Kamchak glared at Harold, and then at me, and then he looked down, scratching his ear; then he looked at us again, and all three of us suddenly burst together into laughter, and tears even streamed down Kamchak's face, running here and there amongst the scarred furrows on his cheeks.
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26 553 "You might have pointed out," said Harold to Kamchak, "that the gold was Turian gold".
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26 555 "Turian gold!" "One might claim," said Harold, "that that makes quite a difference".
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26 557 "On the other hand," said Harold, "I for one would not claim that".
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26 560 Again we laughed and, suddenly, we urged the kaiila forward in great bounding strides, eager to reach the wagons, each of us, for waiting in these wagons were three girls, desirable, marvelous, ours, Hereena, she who had been of the First Wagon, the slave of Harold, her master; Aphris of Turia, almo...
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27 1 The Sparing of the Home Stone of Turia I gathered that the best season for hunting tumits, the large, flightless carnivorous birds of the southern plains, was at hand, for Kamchak, Harold and others seemed to be looking forward to it with great eagerness.
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27 19 I gathered that the proud Hereena might long be the slave of Harold of the Tuchuks.
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27 67 Harold and I were there, too, and Hereena and Elizabeth.
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27 136 None remained now in the court of the Ubar other than Kamchak and Aphris, Harold and Hereena, and myself and Elizabeth Cardwell.
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27 148 "Hail," said I, "Kamchak, Ubar San!" "Hail," cried Harold, "Kamchak, Ubar San!" Kamchak smiled and looked down.
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27 179 Harold walked beside me.
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27 183 "Did you not know?" asked Harold.
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27 187 "It was after her death," said Harold, "that Kutaituchik first tasted the rolled strings of kanda".
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27 190 Harold looked at me.
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28 27 Kamchak was there, and his Aphris, and Harold and his Hereena, still his slave.
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28 31 I turned to Harold.
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28 33 "One tries to keep them that way," said Harold.
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28 40 "You are not really a bad fellow," said Harold, "for a Koroban".
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28 42 "I wish you well," said Harold.
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28 46 Harold and Kamchak looked up at me.
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28 48 Now, diagonally, like a scarlet chevron coursing the flight of the cheek bones, there blazed on the face of Harold the Tuchuk the Courage Scar.
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28 51 "And while you are remembering things," remarked Harold, "you might recollect that we two together won the Courage Scar in Turia".
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28 56 "The years," said Harold, smiling, "were two—the Year in which Tarl Cabot Came to the Wagon Peoples and the Year in which Tarl Cabot Commanded a Thousand".
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Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

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13 123 I recalled Harold of the Tuchuks.
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13 125 Harold, as a boy, had once been a slave in the baths, those of the city of Turia, before he had escaped.
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Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

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22 74 Harold was already in his saddle.
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