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Book 5. (98 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	244	"I am that Portus," said he, "who is Master of the House of Portus".	10
4	24	"It is understood by me," said Cernus, evidently relaying certain reports which had reached him, "that Portus, of the House of Portus, sought to hire your sword in vain".	10
2	106	"He has dared to speak the name of Portus and beg a coin from him".	10
2	113	Kuurus surmised that Portus, doubtless a man of importance, had been troubled by the little fool Hup on more than one occasion, and had now decided to do away with him.	10
2	139	"I am Portus," he said.	10
2	141	Kuurus picked up the coin and fingered it, and then he looked at Portus.	10
2	143	Portus gasped.	10
2	150	Now the Assassin picked up the coin of gold and looked at the startled and sweating Portus.	10
2	152	"A gift to Hup the Fool," said the Assassin, "from Portus, who is kind".	10
2	159	The man was Portus, heavy, paunchy, in blue and yellow silk.	10
2	195	"It is hard in Ar," said the paunchy man, Portus, "since Kazrak has gone".	10
2	197	"There seems little law now," said Portus.	10
2	201	"Some," said Portus.	10
2	206	"Yes," said Portus, "but they do little—they are well paid, more than twice what was done before, but they spend the mornings in practices with arms, and the afternoons and evenings in the taverns, the gaming rooms and baths of the city".	10
2	208	"Yes," said Portus, "and the rich Merchants, and the great houses, those on the Street of Coins, and on the Street of Brands, hire their own men".	10
2	213	"For whom do you wear on your forehead the mark of the black dagger?" queried Portus discreetly.	10
2	215	"Perhaps I could tell you where to find him," proposed Portus.	10
2	217	"Of course," said Portus.	10
2	222	"May I ask, Killer," asked Portus, "if you come to make the first killing—or the second?" "The second," said Kuurus.	10
2	223	"Ah!" said Portus.	10
2	225	"Of course," said Portus.	10
2	227	Portus smiled.	10
2	231	"Of course," hastily agreed Portus.	10
2	233	"Why did you come to speak with me?" "I would hire a sword such as yours," said Portus.	10
2	235	"Ar is a vast city," said Portus.	10
2	238	Portus leaned forward.	10
2	245	Kuurus had heard of the House of Portus, one of the largest of the slave houses in the Street of Brands.	10
2	250	"Those of this house stand near the Administrator, and the High Initiate," said Portus.	10
2	253	"The Administrator and the High Initiate," asked Kuurus, "owe their thrones to the gold of this house?" Portus laughed bitterly.	10
2	256	"These councils," said Portus scornfully, "know well the way the lower castes yelp in the tiers".	10
2	259	Portus winked at Kuurus.	10
2	262	Portus hastily pushed his paga bowl up to his mouth, and swilled again, his eyes wary of the Assassin across from him.	10
2	263	"Where does this house obtain riches such that they may so easily outbid all other factions in Ar?" "It is a rich house," said Portus, looking about himself.	10
2	266	"I do not know where the gold comes from—all of it—" said Portus.	10
2	269	"It wants to be the single slave house of Ar," whispered Portus.	10
2	271	"My house," said Portus, "is twenty generations old.	10
2	273	The house of Portus is known on all Gor".	10
2	274	Portus looked down.	10
2	277	"That is the wish, however, of the house of which I speak," said Portus.	10
2	280	"How can this house of which you speak," asked Kuurus, "undersell so consistently? Is it that the number of slaves is so great that the profit taken on each is less?" "I have thought long on it," said Portus, "and that cannot be all of it.	10
2	283	Portus nodded in puzzlement.	10
2	284	"No," said Portus, "they must have sources of gold other than the income on their merchandise".	10
2	285	Portus pushed one finger around in a puddle of splashed paga on the low table.	10
2	289	"There is another strange thing about that house I do not understand," said Portus.	10
2	291	"The number of barbarian women they place on the block," said Portus.	10
2	292	"There have always been barbarian women on Gor," said Kuurus, dismissing the remark of Portus.	10
2	293	"Not in such numbers," grumbled Portus.	10
2	298	"True," said Portus, "but commonly such raids take place on cylinders in given cities—the distances beyond the cities are great, and the prices paid for mere barbarian girls are less".	10
2	300	"Moreover," said Portus, "these are not common barbarian wenches".	10
2	308	Portus looked down, disgusted.	10
2	310	Portus looked up.	10
2	313	"It is true," said Portus.	10
2	315	"You say that this house of which you speak is the largest and richest, the most powerful, on the Street of Brands?" "Yes," said Portus.	10
2	317	"The House of Cernus," said Portus.	10
2	319	"Good!" cried Portus, his hands on the table, his eyes gleaming.	10
2	321	The eyes of Portus were wide, and his body trembled.	10
4	120	"It is known to me that in the tavern of Spindius, you slew four Warriors of the House of Portus".	10
9	6	The breeding lines of the House of Cernus were recognized, with those of the House of Portus, and certain other of the large slave houses, throughout known Gor.	10
12	119	I wondered if the golden tarn disk, that of Portus, which I had given to him at the tavern had been used to buy a vending license.	10
12	157	The girls were neither of the House of Cernus nor of Portus, but of one of the several lesser houses on the Street of Brands.	10
12	278	They could not be trained by anyone, except perhaps Tethrite of the House of Portus".	10
12	284	"Besides," said Flaminius to Ho-Tu, "even Tethrite of the House of Portus could not train such barbarians".	10
14	133	"The downfall of the House of Portus," said he.	10
14	134	I knew the House of Portus was the greatest remaining rival to the House of Cernus, fighting it for the control of the slave trade in Ar.	10
14	145	"Behold the downfall of the House of Portus," said Cernus.	10
14	196	"What has all this to do with the House of Portus?" I asked.	10
14	206	"I am the property of the House of Portus".	10
14	208	"And it will be the downfall of the House of Portus".	10
15	1	Portus Comes to the House of Cernus I observed Phyllis Robertson performing the belt dance, on love furs spread between the tables, under the eyes of the Warriors of Cernus and the members of his staff.	10
15	395	"Portus!" whispered Ho-Tu.	10
15	397	"Caste sanctuary!" cried Portus, shaking himself free of the guards and stumbling forward and falling on his knees before the wooden dais on which sat the table of Cernus.	10
15	399	"Caste sanctuary!" screamed Portus.	10
15	407	"Caste sanctuary!" again pleaded Portus, on his knees before the table of Cernus.	10
15	409	"Do not disturb the game," said Caprus to Portus.	10
15	410	It seemed incredible to me that Portus had come to the House of Cernus, for much bad blood had existed between the houses.	10
15	412	"They have taken my properties!" cried Portus.	10
15	416	"Caste sanctuary!" whined Portus.	10
15	420	"Only you in Ar can protect me," cried Portus.	10
15	423	Cernus now, while Caprus replaced the pieces of the game, regarded Portus.	10
15	424	"I was your enemy," said Portus.	10
15	428	Caprus, looking up from his work, regarded Portus.	10
15	430	Portus wrung his hands, and his head rolled wildly.	10
15	432	"I do not know!" Then, piteously, Portus lifted his hands to Cernus, Master of the House of Cernus.	10
15	435	Portus cried out for mercy as he was dragged away by two guards, two others following.	10
16	1	The Tarn Less than a month following the downfall of the House of Portus, Cernus had become the undisputed master of the slave trade in Ar.	10
16	2	He had purchased from the state the facilities and chattels of the House of Portus, at a comparatively small price.	10
16	3	The men of the House of Portus, who had been Slavers and mercenaries the equals of those of the House of Cernus, had now been disbanded, some leaving the city, some taking their gold from new masters, some even hiring their swords to the House of Cernus.	10
16	34	On the first day of En'Kara much of the old year had been forgotten, but there were three who could not forget it; Portus, who lay chained in the dungeons of the Central Cylinder; Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, now free, but who had endured the shame of slavery, and would perhaps never again permit hersel...	10
20	26	"Bring Portus!" called Cernus.	10
20	28	Portus, half wasted now, his skin hanging about his frame, was brought, manacled, stripped to the waist, to the square of sand.	10
20	31	"Show mercy!" The slave whom I had originally seen victorious in the sport of hook knife sprang to the sand and began to stalk Portus.	10
20	32	"Please, Cernus!" cried Portus as a long line of blood burst open across his chest.	10
20	34	Then Portus tried to fight but, weakened, unskilled, clumsy, he stumbled about, being again and again streaked with blood, no cut mortal.	10
20	37	Whimpering, Portus was dragged from the sand, leaving blood across the tiles, and was taken from the hall.	10
20	42	The only body not recovered had been that of Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, who had been originally the unfortunate victim of the intrigues of Cernus, the means whereby was brought about the downfall of the house of Portus.	10
20	43	I heard, far off, a weird scream, that of Portus, and a wild, savage cry, almost a roar.	10
20	88	"I have been in misery," she wept, "since I was stolen by the men of the house of Portus and enslaved".	10
20	91	"How could the men of Portus enter the Central Cylinder and carry you away?" he inquired.	10

Book 22. (14 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	1065	"We left him with the slave wagon, with Alcinous and Portus".	10
29	1072	"Alcinous and Portus are anxious to be on their way," said the newcomer.	10
29	1093	"Tell Alcinous and Portus we will be along in a moment".	10
29	1096	It had been the good fortune of Callisthenes, Alcinous and Portus, it seemed, not to have been in the meadow earlier.	10
29	1258	"You were to wait with Alcinous and Portus".	10
29	1270	"Alcinous and Portus were not unskilled".	10
29	1274	"I saw those of Alcinous and Portus, and detected only those of one other," he said.	10
29	1277	"Portus was run through".	10
29	1278	"Portus died second," said Fulvius.	10
29	1283	"What of the purses of Alcinous and Portus?" asked Fulvius.	10
29	1288	"The wounds of Alcinous and Portus were frontal wounds," said Callisthenes.	10
29	1561	Too, I did not doubt but what in their minds were the fates of their fellows, Alcinous and Portus, back at the wagon.	10
29	1589	I think he had not really wanted to meet up with him, he who had slain his fellows, Alcinous and Portus.	10
29	1614	There they had apparently buried three bodies, those of Licinius, who had been slain by Hendow, and Alcinous and Portus, victims, it seems, of his own blade.	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	273	She had figured as a pawn in the dark games of Cernus of Ar, to bring down the house of Portus, his major economic rival in the city.	10

Book 27. (387 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	273	Ellen had not been recognized in the pool, she was sure, neither by Portus Canio nor Fel Doron, nor by the subcaptain and Tersius Major, the attentions of the latter pair being focused generally on Portus Canio and Fel Doron, whom, she supposed, they had come out to discomfit, witnessing them in the...	10
26	900	"Portus! Portus Canio!" "Yes," said Portus, turning about.	10
21	225	She gasped, for these were the figures of the Cosian subcaptain, known to her from the tarn loft of Portus Canio in Ar, and from the coffle, and Tersius Major, who had been in the employ of Portus Canio, and who had left Ar with them.	10
21	231	There was no response from Portus Canio and the subcaptain gestured to the soldier with the whip, who struck Portus Canio twice.	10
26	680	"Perhaps you can cut his throat later," said Fel Doron, slapping Portus Canio jovially on the shoulder, and Portus Canio grinned, and snorted in disgust.	10
27	2143	"We are not slaves!" said the fellow of Portus Canio, Loquatus, only he left of the original nine, other than Portus Canio himself, Selius Arconious and Fel Doron.	10
18	20	"Dress, slut," said Portus Canio, tarnmaster of the Tower of Corridon.	10
18	24	"Surely you have duties, slut," said Portus Canio.	10
18	29	The legend of the collar read "I am Ellen, the slave of Portus Canio".	10
18	35	"What is your name?" had asked Portus Canio, some weeks ago, when Ellen, freed of the hood, had knelt, head to the floor, still chained by the neck, still back-braceleted, before him in the stall.	10
18	38	"What have you been called?" Portus Canio had inquired.	10
18	53	She looked after Portus Canio, doubtless her master, whose name she would learn only later, and from others.	10
18	61	"Ho!" said Portus Canio, turning and glaring at young Selius Arconious.	10
18	62	"Are there not harnesses to repair?" "To be sure, Portus," grinned Selius.	10
18	64	"See if she is sent to your blankets soon," said Portus.	10
18	72	"The paga taverns are being emptied," said Portus, "the best girls being shipped to Cos and Tyros, to Brundisium, and elsewhere".	10
18	74	"If you were not one of the best tarnsters in Ar," said Portus, "I would throw you from the platform".	10
18	77	Portus then turned about and left the area, going to adjacent rooms.	10
18	79	Within the portal was the "tarncot," so to speak, of Portus Canio, which was, in effect, for the most part, a large, lofty, barnlike area, certainly that within the great portal.	10
18	88	The enterprise of Portus in the Corridon Tower was, so to speak, a livery stable and transportation outlet.	10
18	91	There were also, these accessible from the larger area, some hallways, and a number of ancillary rooms, a kitchen, a pantry, living quarters, a workroom, sometimes used, the office of Portus Canio, and so on.	10
18	93	She had run madly away, in panic, blindly, but struck into Portus, before whom, in terror, she had knelt.	10
18	128	Portus read the collar to her, before putting it on her, as she was illiterate.	10
18	130	It said, as we recall, "I am Ellen, the slave of Portus Canio".	10
18	138	In descending to the street she never used the outside ladder which Portus, who disliked the confinements of the long spiral staircases within the cylinders, had used to bring her originally to the tarn cot.	10
18	192	She wanted to hurry back to Portus, or Selius, or one of the others, and beg use.	10
18	208	What would my ideological sisters say if they could see me here, in Ar, a naked slave! I am pleased to be such! Let them cry out in anger, in scorn, in contempt! I would not give the peel of a larma for all that they might think! But see if you, dear, righteous sisters, would behave any differently,...	10
18	218	Her master, however, Portus Canio, she knew, had a Home Stone.	10
18	223	It had been only two weeks ago that Portus Canio, apparently satisfied with her service, perhaps even pleased, had thrown a small wad of cloth before her, as she had knelt in her stall.	10
18	228	The next morning, when freed, the chain off her neck, she had hastened to don the tiny garment and had run to Portus, seeking him out, and knelt before him, covering his feet with kisses.	10
18	244	"It can be shorter," said Portus Canio.	10
18	246	"It can be taken from you," said Portus.	10
18	252	"We must to our chores," said Portus.	10
18	256	It is not unusual for slave girls denied clothing to beg piteously for a rag with which to cover themselves, at least when they dare to do so, but Ellen had not importuned Portus Canio with respect to this privilege, fearing the exasperation of his patience, fearing to be beaten.	10
18	268	Portus Canio had left but Selius Arconious was still standing in the vicinity of the great portal.	10
18	284	That had been done by Portus Canio, her master, of course.	10
18	295	More embarrassingly Ellen, despite her initial dismay, her resentment, and distress, at Portus's first use of her there, had gradually, in the vicinity of this object, and in certain other places where men had put her to their purposes, begun to be disturbed by slave heat rising within her.	10
18	318	"I trust that my Master, the noble Portus Canio, your employer," said Ellen to Selius Arconious, "does not inquire of me as to your behavior, and if you have been attentive to your duties, for I, as a slave, however reluctantly, knelt down to speak the truth, would have to admit that you have been l...	10
18	339	"We all fear tarns," Portus Canio had told her once, on the platform.	10
18	394	Just as Ellen was not permitted, nor would be many slaves, to leave the domicile of the master without permission, so, too, she was not permitted, without express permission, to open the interior door of the apartments of Portus Canio, that leading to the interior stairwell, giving access to various...	10
18	398	Portus Canio, himself, would admit these visitors, but only, whether it were early evening or late at night, after he had hooded Ellen, back-braceleted her and chained her in her stall.	10
18	401	Portus Canio entertained these visitors in the kitchen, apparently about the table there.	10
18	404	"What have you there?" asked Portus Canio.	10
18	414	Portus held the shard before her, the glazed side facing her.	10
18	428	"Assume the standard position for the examination of a standing slave," said Portus Canio.	10
18	437	"Steady," said Portus Canio.	10
18	439	"A tiny tube has been inserted in your body," said Portus Canio.	10
18	446	Accordingly, she was unable to reach whatever it was which Portus Canio had placed in her body.	10
18	450	"Are your thighs hot?" asked Portus Canio.	10
18	452	"Good," said Portus.	10
18	460	"This message," said Portus, "is to be carried to Bonto, the Cobbler, of the Leather Workers, in Hesius Street.	10
18	463	"It is an order for work sandals, for the men, with their sizes, and such," said Portus Canio.	10
18	487	"Convey my greetings to Portus Canio, your master," said he, "and inform him that the order will be filled by the tenth Ahn, the second day from this".	10
18	496	He is muchly different from Portus Canio, my master.	10
18	500	But I think I prefer Portus Canio, my master.	10
18	504	I do not think he would be patient with me, not at all, even as patient as Portus Canio.	10
18	543	Then, her ankles cruelly, widely spread, held far apart, she could feel the edges of the table on each side, the object which Portus Canio had inserted within her was drawn free.	10
18	560	She wondered if that were because she was the property of Portus Canio, or merely because these were serious men, who had more important things on their minds than such as she.	10
18	571	"What is going on here?" said Portus Canio, entering the room.	10
18	576	She stood then straight, as Portus Canio was present, reddening, looking embarrassed, trying to look indignant.	10
18	577	"Well?" said Portus.	10
18	579	"Seek provender at the taverns, at the brothels," said Portus.	10
18	584	"Oh, I do not blame you, slut," said Portus.	10
18	588	"The sight of you to a man," said Portus Canio to Ellen, "is like thrusting a torch into straw.	10
18	592	Portus Canio then left.	10
18	621	With a cry of anger, Ellen spun about and hurried to the office of Portus Canio.	10
18	644	Ellen was at the public laundry pools on a given morning, those local to her district, toward the ninth Ahn, something before noon, kneeling on a towel, working on the laundry for Portus Canio and his men.	10
18	666	He was in the employ of Portus Canio, her master, and, given her duties, there was no way she could avoid doing his laundry.	10
18	741	"Who is your master?" "Portus Canio, of Ar," said Ellen.	10
18	801	That evening, after supper, she knelt before Portus Canio, and asked if she might be belled.	10
18	802	"Why?" asked Portus Canio.	10
19	1	What Occurred in the Tarn Loft; One Must Make Haste "The shop of Bonto has been burned! He himself has been seized by Cosians!" cried Fel Doron, he of the employ of Portus Canio, bursting into the loft area, from the interior door.	10
19	2	Portus looked up, wildly, from his work, weaving closed a gap in the wickerwork of one of the light tarn baskets.	10
19	3	"Bonto knows nothing," said Portus, angrily, rising to his feet.	10
19	7	"Is your Home Stone the Home Stone of Ar?" inquired Portus, suddenly, fiercely, of Selius Arconious.	10
19	10	"The shop of Bonto has been burned," said Portus.	10
19	18	Portus, Fel Doron and Tersius Major exchanged glances.	10
19	19	"It exists," said Portus, "but it is ineffective, and dilatory, and we must act independently".	10
19	26	"What is different now? What has precipitated the actions of the Cosians?" asked Portus.	10
19	29	"Look into the streets!" said Portus to Tersius Major.	10
19	37	"What is the concern below?" called Portus to Tersius, on the platform.	10
19	41	"Talena!" cried Portus, angrily.	10
19	43	"False Ubara!" cried Portus, in fury.	10
19	44	"Portus!" called Tersius, from outside the exterior entrance.	10
19	46	Portus turned white.	10
19	48	"No," said Portus.	10
19	51	"Tarns can come and go, and leave the city," said Portus.	10
19	58	Portus rushed inward, to the loft office, and, in moments, carrying a heavy bundle over his shoulder, from which escaped the sounds of metal, emerged, seized up a tarn goad and, throwing open the latch to the huge cot, the general housing area, that mighty cage, which held several of the gigantic wi...	10
19	59	The birds drew back from the goad uneasily, angrily, and, against the far wall of that immense cot, that great cage, beneath straw, Portus concealed the mysterious bundle.	10
19	63	Ellen looked to the huge tarn cage, that enormous cot, where Portus had concealed the mysterious bundle.	10
19	65	"Continue with your work," said Portus to Ellen, and she, dutifully, put down her head, and returned to her scrubbing, the stout bristles of the thick brush damp on the wet floor.	10
19	66	"Ah, Masters, welcome!" said Portus, as he opened the interior door, through which burst several guardsmen, their helmets bearing the yellow crest, their weapons at the ready.	10
19	68	"I, noble Master," said Portus.	10
19	73	"Gladly," said Portus.	10
19	75	"Eighteen," said Portus.	10
19	77	"You can account for the others?" "Of course," said Portus.	10
19	86	They even went into the kitchen, and the rooms of Portus Canio and the others, emptying chests, pulling things down from shelves, scattering things about in the pantry, cutting into sacks.	10
19	92	"What have you found?" asked the officer, emerging from Portus's office, a sheaf of papers in his hands, doubtless to be examined by others, elsewhere.	10
19	113	"Give me a tarn goad," said the officer to Portus Canio.	10
19	114	Portus made a negligible gesture, as of regret.	10
19	117	"These are only draft tarns," said Portus, "slow, clumsy, gentle birds.	10
19	125	"Only cowards fear tarns," said Portus Canio.	10
19	127	"They are so tame?" inquired the officer, irritably, turning to regard Portus Canio.	10
19	128	"I do not know what could be the matter," said Portus Canio.	10
19	144	"She is a barbarian," said Portus.	10
19	148	"She is a barbarian," repeated Portus, disparagingly.	10
19	155	"A meaningless barbarian," said Portus.	10
19	157	"She is a low slave, a cheap slave," said Portus, "good only for the cleaning of cages, the scrubbing of floors, the carrying of water, the replenishing of straw, such things".	10
19	161	"Surely you can see what a poor slave she is," said Portus, "how insignificant she is, what poor goods she is".	10
19	169	"A low slave," said Portus, disparagingly.	10
19	171	"In a paga tavern, in Cos?" asked Portus.	10
19	199	"I will send a man here tonight, a slaver, or slaver's man, to pick her up," said the officer to Portus Canio.	10
19	200	"Cos treats her allies well," said Portus Canio.	10
19	203	"Sir," said Portus Canio.	10
19	205	"There seems to be some disturbance in the city, some commotion in the streets," said Portus Canio.	10
19	209	Portus went to Ellen, who was still standing.	10
19	212	"You must give her up, Portus," said Tersius.	10
19	240	"We will not be here," said Portus.	10
19	242	"Give the signal," said Portus.	10
19	244	"We must act," said Portus.	10
19	251	"We are taking her with us," said Portus.	10
19	258	"Gather your goods, anything you want," said Portus to Fel Doron and Tersius Major.	10
19	261	"Selius," said Portus, "attend to the slave.	10
19	326	"Where are you taking me?" "Portus wants me to go below, and see what is occurring in the streets," he said.	10
19	334	She cried out, but it seemed that Portus and the others were unconcerned, or did not hear her.	10
19	379	"The slave has been fed and watered, as you wished, Portus," said Selius Arconious.	10
19	381	"Good," said Portus.	10
19	385	"Where is Tersius?" asked Portus.	10
19	389	"What have you been doing?" asked Portus.	10
19	391	"We will soon take wing," said Portus.	10
19	393	"Assist Selius," said Portus, looking about, as though he feared to hear at any moment the cries of men and the rushing of footsteps on the stairs, the rude, insistent smiting of spears against the inner door.	10
19	395	Portus, taking his concealed tarn goad from its hiding place to one side, behind the loose board, entered the tarn cage in which he had placed the oblong, mysterious package before the arrival of the Cosian soldiers, and retrieved it from under the straw.	10
19	402	"Arm yourselves," said Portus.	10
19	407	"Do you care to arm yourself?" asked Portus.	10
19	409	Portus rerolled the bundle, tied it shut and placed it in one of the tarn baskets, one of seven taken from the nearby stacks and put near the great, lofty exit from the loft.	10
19	411	"What is going on?" "You have heard of the Delta Brigade," said Portus.	10
19	413	"What do you know of it?" asked Portus.	10
19	415	"It is an organization," said Portus, "formed largely, but not entirely, from veterans of the great disaster of the Vosk delta, where they were betrayed by treason in high places, denied supplies, abandoned, left to die, who muchly suffered in their retreat from the delta, and found themselves despi...	10
19	418	"We must do what we can without him," said Portus.	10
19	420	"The Delta Brigade is not a myth, as you may have supposed," said Portus.	10
19	430	"Some things can be done, and must be done," said Portus.	10
19	435	"There is no rallying point," said Portus.	10
19	437	"The forces of occupation are not all Cosian," said Portus.	10
19	444	"Portions of this wealth will come to Ar, to content the mercenaries," said Portus.	10
19	448	"Do you think the mercenaries, and their captains, will simply submit to being dismissed?" asked Portus.	10
19	453	"A caravan of gold is on its way to Ar," said Portus.	10
19	459	Portus grinned.	10
19	462	"Are you with us?" asked Portus.	10
19	464	"Are you with us?" asked Portus, again.	10
19	466	"I wish you well," said Portus.	10
19	475	"We do not," said Portus, smiling.	10
19	479	Portus would lead, controlling the first tarn with its basket.	10
19	492	Or perhaps Portus might have been ordered to deliver the slave himself to some designated location.	10
19	496	Portus entered the first basket, and Fel Doron and Tersius Major entered the second and third baskets, respectively.	10
19	500	Might that not be a disguise for roving tarnsmen, who might then jettison the baskets and wing their way free to whatever mischief they might portend? "Untie the slave," Portus called to Selius, "and put her in the last basket".	10
19	507	"Ellen!" called Portus.	10
19	509	"Though your hands are free," said Portus to Ellen, "you will retain your gag until we have passed, if we pass, over the walls of the city".	10
19	511	Ellen did not understand Portus's qualification 'if we pass'.	10
19	513	"Put her in the last basket," said Portus.	10
19	521	"When Portus addressed you," said Selius Arconious, "you merely shook your head in understanding, and affirmation".	10
19	554	"The cargo is stowed," Selius called to Portus.	10
19	557	Portus lifted his arm, and Fel Doron, and Tersius Major, behind him, acknowledged this signal.	10
19	558	"Selius!" called Portus.	10
19	560	"Portus?" he asked.	10
19	561	"You were below," said Portus.	10
19	564	Portus then gestured ahead, and urged his tarn forth, out of the loft area, to the platform.	10
19	567	Portus kept the bird low, and it moved in relative silence amongst the cylinders of the city.	10
19	636	On this world there are men such as Portus Canio and Selius Arconious! I am a woman.	10
19	650	Portus's remark 'if we pass' returned to her, and it frightened her.	10
19	701	How kind is Portus, my master, to me, she thought, gratefully.	10
19	732	Why did Portus not turn me over to the soldiers of Cos, or their representative, she wondered.	10
19	744	She did not doubt, however, but what Portus was fond of her.	10
19	751	I would think that it would be Portus Canio, my master, who must fear, and Fel Doron and Tersius Major, his associates and friends, for they are free persons and would doubtless be held accountable for their actions, for theft, treason, or such.	10
20	62	He was the Cosian subcaptain who had demanded documentation of Portus Canio, the subcaptain whose men had searched the loft, he who had confiscated her in the name of Cos, wiring the tag to her collar.	10
20	67	What was the fate of Portus Canio, Fel Doron and Tersius Major, she wondered.	10
20	145	The light collar of Portus, the common collar, typical of Gorean slave collars, had been removed last night, and the tag that had been wired to it.	10
20	172	* * * * It will be recalled that Portus and his party left Ar under the cover of darkness.	10
20	174	Clearly this was to be a concealed camp, and Portus had forbidden the lighting of fires.	10
20	188	Portus, within the thicket, with a crossbow, stalked and slew a small tabuk.	10
20	210	She did make out the word 'rendezvous', from which word she gathered that Portus, and perhaps unknown allies, would soon meet, to prosecute some plan or another.	10
20	217	She awakened once, hearing Portus inquire of Tersius Major where he had been, and, drowsily, heard his reply, that he had gone for water.	10
20	219	It was Portus.	10
20	237	She tried to despise herself for her weakness, for her behavior before Portus Canio.	10
20	266	Tersius Major must have been signaling Portus Canio and Fel Doron, she supposed.	10
20	274	The two lead tarns and baskets, those of Portus Canio and Fel Doron, continued on their way, apparently unaware that Tersius Major had left the train, and that his trailing tarns had been, in effect, loosed.	10
20	278	The tarns and baskets of Portus Canio and Fel Doron continued on their way.	10
20	280	Was this an elected point? Was this prearranged with Portus Canio and Fel Doron? They seemed to be continuing directly on.	10
20	282	Had that signal been intended for Portus Canio and Fel Doron, or for others? Others, surely.	10
20	283	Indeed, perhaps Portus Canio and Fel Doron were aware of the signal, it forming a part of their plans.	10
20	291	These were surely no allies of Portus Canio and his tarnsters.	10
20	464	My master is Portus Canio, of Ar.	10
20	877	"Portus Canio, of Ar, was your master," he said.	10
20	881	Ellen wondered if he had heard the name of Portus Canio, of Ar, before.	10
20	930	She did not know what Portus had paid for her.	10
20	933	Portus was not a patient man.	10
20	976	She feared that this intelligence boded ill for Ar, and perhaps for Portus and his fellows.	10
20	1036	One was the subcaptain, the Cosian officer, who had been in the loft of Portus Canio, whose men had ransacked it, indeed, he who had wired the tag to her collar, and who had spoken to her earlier.	10
21	44	She wore no collar now, that of Portus Canio, with the tag attached by the subcaptain, having been removed some days earlier in the Cosian camp.	10
21	124	Ellen recognized Portus Canio! He did not see her.	10
21	127	How awry had turned out the brave adventure of Portus Canio! "Thus to the enemies of Cos!" called out their attendant, spitting toward the group of prisoners, or slaves.	10
21	131	She did not wish to be recognized by either Portus Canio or Fel Doron.	10
21	132	Surely Portus Canio was miserable enough.	10
21	215	Approaching the pool was the line of prisoners, or slaves, which contained Portus Canio and Fel Doron.	10
21	218	She did not wish to be seen by either Portus Canio or Fel Doron.	10
21	226	"So, the noble Portus Canio, of Ar, who dared conspire against the might of Cos, now carries water, as though he might be a slave, to replenish the contents of a cistern, one devoted to the drinking of tharlarion and the ablutions of slaves," said the subcaptain.	10
21	228	Portus Canio lifted his head a little, and looked, dully, at the subcaptain.	10
21	235	"I am greater now than you," said Tersius Major to Portus Canio.	10
21	241	Portus Canio lifted his eyes to those of Tersius Major.	10
21	247	Portus Canio put down his head.	10
21	252	"Yes," said Portus Canio, the effort to speak seeming to cost him much.	10
21	261	Portus Canio did not lift his head.	10
21	263	Portus Canio raised his head, painfully, angrily.	10
21	267	The suggestion that Portus Canio, a free man, might wash slaves was, of course, a grievous insult.	10
22	216	She had seen that letter in Ar, scrawled on a wall, and also on an ostrakon in the holding of Portus Canio.	10
24	640	"Are you searching for Portus Canio, for Fel Doron, for Tersius Major? Beware of Tersius Major!" "Or," she thought wildly, "have you come here following a slave? I trust you have not come here for me, for my number is 117, and you will not be able to afford me! You are the sort of man to whom a woma...	10
26	113	"Portus Canio and Fel Doron are in this camp, in chains," said Ellen, hastily, fearing to be interrupted, the words spilling out.	10
26	117	Beware of Tersius Major! Portus Canio and Fel Doron are even now awaiting transportation to Cos or Tyros, perhaps to the quarries!" "Do not concern yourself about such things, slave girl," said Selius Arconious.	10
26	118	"Portus Canio and Fel Doron are your friends!" said Ellen.	10
26	251	She suspected that Portus Canio and Fel Doron had been under this impression as well.	10
26	252	Indeed, she suspected, though it was scarcely a matter of which slaves might speak, that Portus Canio and Fel Doron, and, supposedly, Tersius Major, had planned to strike at this treasure, in order to weaken and worsen the occupation in Ar, to outrage the garrison posted there, to outrage both the m...	10
26	655	But Portus Canio and Fel Doron, each in the garb of a Cosian guardsman, cautioned her to silence.	10
26	666	"What occurred?" asked Portus Canio.	10
26	678	"I would prefer to cut his throat," said Portus Canio.	10
26	713	"Is there to be a change of the guard here?" asked the dark-haired man of Portus Canio.	10
26	747	"Have you not overlooked something?" asked Portus Canio, grinning.	10
26	749	"Let us consider the matter," said Portus Canio.	10
26	754	"Of course not," said Portus Canio.	10
26	763	"But," said Portus Canio, "I might be willing to sell her to you".	10
26	767	"What was the highest bid in silver for her?" asked Portus.	10
26	771	"That is my price," said Portus.	10
26	774	Slowly, as Ellen watched, delighted, Selius Arconious, angrily, reluctantly, removing them one by one from his purse, placed twenty-one silver tarsks, of Ar, in the hands of Portus Canio.	10
26	775	Portus Canio looked down at Ellen.	10
26	785	"I wanted to see how much you wanted her," said Portus Canio.	10
26	789	"Give me a tarsk-bit," smiled Portus Canio.	10
26	794	Ellen stiffened as he then gave a tarsk-bit, the hundredth part of a mere copper tarsk, to Portus Canio.	10
26	795	Portus took the coin and put it in the guardsman's wallet at his belt.	10
26	796	"That is doubtless, objectively, what she is worth," said Portus Canio.	10
26	798	Ellen looked angrily, from her knees, she back-braceleted, from Portus Canio to Selius Arconious.	10
26	799	"To the feet of your master, slut," snapped Portus Canio.	10
26	827	As Portus Canio had referred to Bosk of Port Kar and Marcus, of Ar's Station, as friends of the "scarlet caste," they must be then, thought Ellen, of the Warriors.	10
26	837	"Yes," said Portus Canio.	10
26	841	"He is with us, for whatever reason," said Portus Canio.	10
26	855	"There is little to do now," said Portus Canio.	10
26	858	"Not counting the freed prisoners, fifty," said Portus Canio.	10
26	901	"How many guards were there with the prisoners?" "Four," said Portus.	10
26	1035	Selius Arconious was there, and Portus Canio, and Fel Doron, and others, including the red-haired man, he so much like a larl, claimedly from Port Kar, it seemed of the Warriors, and his fellow, the dark-haired, lithe man, said to be of Ar's Station, also it seemed of the Warriors, which was somewhe...	10
26	1043	"Certainly," grinned Portus Canio, and rose to his feet.	10
26	1073	"They did not recognize you," said Portus Canio to Selius Arconious.	10
26	1079	"Yes, perhaps we should leave," said another fellow, looking at Portus Canio.	10
26	1121	"It is not time yet," said Portus Canio.	10
26	1127	"Two Ahn, two and a half Ahn, something like that," said Portus Canio.	10
26	1128	Ellen, under the blanket, could see nothing, but she gathered from small sounds that the counsel of Portus Canio and Fel Doron had prevailed, and that their uneasy fellows had now returned to their places by the fire.	10
26	1380	"Is it time to flight tarns?" asked Portus Canio.	10
26	1392	"We might pretend to rest, as it is late," said Portus Canio.	10
26	1490	"Portus Canio might know".	10
27	2	Portus Canio, Fel Doron, and their small company, including he known as Bosk of Port Kar, and Marcus of Ar's Station, were moving eastward, away from the camp which had been outside Brundisium, not southeastward, toward Ar.	10
27	11	With them, of course, as unhurried, as unnoticed, as others, had gone Portus Canio, Fel Doron and those accompanying them.	10
27	138	Portus Canio and the others, then, would presumably turn southeast, toward Ar, hoping to reach the great southern road, the Viktel Aria, Ar's Victory.	10
27	165	"Do not break," said Portus Canio.	10
27	178	"Ellen," said Portus Canio, not looking at her, "down.	10
27	184	"Continue as you were," said Portus Canio to Fel Doron.	10
27	189	"Have they seen us?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	191	"I saw five," said Portus Canio.	10
27	203	"That may not be true," said Portus Canio, grimly.	10
27	206	"Can you see banners, weaponry?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	211	"We will continue on our way," said Portus Canio.	10
27	213	"Stand," said Portus Canio.	10
27	219	"I do not understand this," said Portus Canio.	10
27	223	"Perhaps," said Portus Canio.	10
27	226	Portus Canio swung himself over the side of the wagon, and stood upright beside her for several Ihn, looking backward.	10
27	244	Portus Canio growled softly, held her for a moment, then laughed softly, and then placed her gently on the blankets in the wagon bed.	10
27	246	Someone wants me! Someone thinks I am of interest! Indeed, it had been Portus Canio who had bought her off the shelf of Targo in Ar, in the Kettle Market! She stole a glance at Selius Arconious.	10
27	249	"Keep watch, behind us, and to the sides," said Portus Canio.	10
27	328	"Where are they?" "Who knows?" "Where did they go?" "Who knows?" "Why did they leave?" asked a man of Portus Canio.	10
27	329	"I do not know," said Portus Canio.	10
27	333	"I do not know," said Portus Canio.	10
27	337	"What did they know that we do not?" asked a man of Portus Canio.	10
27	338	"I do not know," said Portus Canio.	10
27	339	"Why did they permit us to make so little ground yesterday?" asked another man of Portus Canio.	10
27	340	"One does not question such men," said Portus Canio.	10
27	342	"They are of the Warriors," said Portus Canio.	10
27	345	"Yes, of course," said Portus Canio.	10
27	349	"Feel free to do so," said Portus Canio.	10
27	351	Portus Canio's original interlocutor turned white.	10
27	354	Portus Canio did not respond.	10
27	356	"Harness the tharlarion," said Portus Canio.	10
27	368	* * * * It had not been more than an Ahn since the harnessing of the tharlarion and the breaking of the camp than Portus Canio called the halt.	10
27	370	Portus Canio was not the only one who had caught the scent.	10
27	372	Portus Canio climbed to the wagon box, beside Fel Doron, and stood, facing backward, shading his eyes.	10
27	375	"Portus!" he had called.	10
27	381	"Arm yourselves," said Portus Canio.	10
27	386	"Free the spears," said Portus Canio.	10
27	390	"They are tracking," said Portus Canio.	10
27	394	"I would not think so," said Portus Canio.	10
27	397	"It cannot be told at present," said Portus.	10
27	400	"Look about," he encouraged Portus Canio.	10
27	401	Portus Canio, standing on the wagon box, looked then to all sides of the wagon, to each barren, windswept horizon.	10
27	403	"I see nothing," said Portus Canio.	10
27	405	"Have they seen us?" "I cannot tell," said Portus Canio.	10
27	406	"Are they Cosians?" "I do not think so," said Portus Canio.	10
27	410	"I think they have seen us," said Portus Canio.	10
27	412	"Six men," said Portus Canio, slowly.	10
27	415	"They are not alone," said Portus Canio, slowly.	10
27	418	"I do not know," said Portus Canio.	10
27	444	"Hit the sleen first," said Portus Canio to the two bowmen.	10
27	464	"Tal!" called Portus Canio, pleasantly enough, from before the bench of the wagon box, where he stood.	10
27	470	"In the matter of the quarrels," said Portus Canio, softly, to the two bowmen, one on each side of the wagon, "use your discretion".	10
27	473	Though the men on tharlarion, the strangers, doubtless heard nothing, she had little doubt but what Portus Canio's soft remark, little more than a whisper, had been clearly audible to the beast.	10
27	475	"Tal!" repeated Portus Canio.	10
27	493	"You do not return my greeting," said Portus.	10
27	504	"What do you seek?" asked Portus, again, this time not pleasantly.	10
27	507	Portus Canio, puzzled, looked to Ellen.	10
27	509	"Why?" asked Portus.	10
27	534	"We have no Cosian gold," said Portus Canio.	10
27	549	"You have brought five men, and five beasts, and two sleen, to regain a single slave?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	553	"We are nine men," said Portus Canio, puzzled.	10
27	648	Several of the men in the party of Portus Canio cried out in alarm, and astonishment.	10
27	654	"That is a forbidden weapon," said Portus Canio.	10
27	656	"By the Priest-Kings," said Portus Canio.	10
27	660	"I do not know," said Portus Canio.	10
27	686	"Few would deny that the caste of Initiates are parasites," said Portus Canio, who held no great brief for that caste.	10
27	695	"The Priest-Kings," suggested Portus Canio.	10
27	697	Portus Canio was silent.	10
27	701	"I do not understand," said Portus Canio.	10
27	703	"And so there are no Priest-Kings?" said Portus Canio.	10
27	707	"You have loosed lightning," said Portus Canio.	10
27	709	"Then," said Portus Canio, "the Priest-Kings will know of it".	10
27	747	At a gesture from Portus Canio Selius Arconious stopped struggling, but he stood, trembling, dark with rage, between the two who had briefly held him.	10
27	748	"Wait," cautioned Portus Canio.	10
27	764	Perhaps now, too, to some extent, did those with Portus Canio, with Fel Doron and the wagon.	10
27	833	"Have you meat with you?" cried Mirus to Portus Canio.	10
27	834	"No," said Portus Canio.	10
27	840	The beast called Kardok, the largest of the five monstrous creatures, looked toward the wagon and Portus Canio, and the others.	10
27	845	"Put down the bows, sheath your weapons," said one of Mirus's companions, one mounted to his left, regarding the men of Portus Canio.	10
27	847	"Leave the slave, and be on your way," said Portus Canio.	10
27	849	"Who will be first to reach for the lightning knife?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	853	Kardok's eyes blazed as he looked from the face of one of Portus Canio's men to that of another.	10
27	864	"What of your sleen?" inquired Portus Canio.	10
27	868	"I think they are domesticated sleen, trained hunting sleen," said Portus Canio.	10
27	894	He was the one who had asserted that Portus Canio's group had put the purloined gold somewhere.	10
27	921	"Tell your men not to fire," he said to Portus Canio.	10
27	922	"Be ready," said Portus Canio.	10
27	958	"It can speak!" said one of Portus's men.	10
27	962	"Call away your beast," said Portus, half sick.	10
27	964	"Who is first amongst you?" demanded Portus Canio.	10
27	969	"Nor we ours," said Portus Canio.	10
27	973	"Do not move," said Portus Canio.	10
27	976	"That is obviously their plan," said Portus Canio.	10
27	980	"On whom would you be able to set them, and how?" inquired Portus Canio.	10
27	983	"The beasts are not armed," said Portus Canio.	10
27	985	"Why are the beasts not armed?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	990	"So then there are ten of you, and only nine of us," said Portus Canio.	10
27	992	"How many are you prepared to lose?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	994	"Then discard your weapons," said Portus Canio.	10
27	996	"There are no locked positions here," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1009	The other riders laughed, but did not take their eyes from the men of Portus Canio.	10
27	1012	Portus Canio lifted his gaze a fraction.	10
27	1015	"Tarnsmen," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1020	"Take cover!" shouted Portus Canio.	10
27	1030	One of Portus's men who had held the two crossbows wheeled away from the back of the wagon, stumbling, the weapon discharged, fallen to the grass.	10
27	1039	Two of Portus's men, weapons in their hands, now crouched under the wagon with her, taking cover from the fire from above.	10
27	1056	She heard Portus Canio say, "They will come again".	10
27	1068	"They will come again, some on foot," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1073	"Two will no longer draw the bow," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1075	"I, too," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1077	"No," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1079	"How many quarrels are there left?" asked Portus Canio.	10
27	1081	"Then we are finished," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1087	"Attend to it," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1095	Kardok, standing near them, lifted his head, and turned his eyes toward the wagon, toward Portus's group.	10
27	1096	"Load the bow," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1109	Of Portus's men, who had numbered nine, there were five left.	10
27	1110	Staggering across the grass towards Portus's group was he whom Ellen took to be the leader of the visitors, or, at least, of the humans, he who had spoken for them, he who had killed the translator.	10
27	1121	Portus calmly watched him approach.	10
27	1122	The spokesman, half dazed, lifted his weapon and trained it on Portus's chest.	10
27	1123	"There were probably five or six men in each basket," said Portus quietly, gazing into the barrel of the weapon, whose capacities he now well understood.	10
27	1142	"You were with us," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1145	Portus shrugged.	10
27	1154	"It is gone, sped," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1157	"Two were with our party," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1162	"Yes," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1166	"And then you might never see them again?" "Perhaps not," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1168	"And did your plan unfold as you had anticipated?" "Not entirely," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1171	"Yes," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1173	"No," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1175	"There is such a thing as honor," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1177	"Even if they should make away with it, or the others to whom they impart information," said Portus Canio, "it does not much matter, really.	10