Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 5 | 37 | Further I was confident that the lock would be placed, for Cernus would insist, by one of his own smiths, and thus that the nature of the lock would be known to him and that a duplicate of its key, in spite of the injunction against such, would doubtless be his. |
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 5 | 34 | I decided it would not be wise to insist that a lock be placed on the door. |
| 5 | 35 | Such a demand might seem importunate or to evince a concern for secrecy not in place in a house where I, supposedly, had taken gold for the use of my steel. |
| 5 | 36 | Such a demand might have incited suspicion that I was not what I seemed. |
| 5 | 37 | Further I was confident that the lock would be placed, for Cernus would insist, by one of his own smiths, and thus that the nature of the lock would be known to him and that a duplicate of its key, in spite of the injunction against such, would doubtless be his. |
| 5 | 38 | I was not altogether without an expedient, however, as, upon examination, I discovered that the door had, as well as the latch string hole, another small hole bored below the latch bar, doubtless put there by someone who had used the room before myself. |
| 5 | 39 | "This permits," I said to Elizabeth, indicating the small hole below the latch bar, "the complex knot". |
| 5 | 40 | "What is that?" she asked. |
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I decided it would not be wise to insist that a lock be placed on the door.
Such a demand might seem importunate or to evince a concern for secrecy not in place in a house where I, supposedly, had taken gold for the use of my steel.
Such a demand might have incited suspicion that I was not what I seemed.
Further I was confident that the lock would be placed, for Cernus would insist, by one of his own smiths, and thus that the nature of the lock would be known to him and that a duplicate of its key, in spite of the injunction against such, would doubtless be his.
I was not altogether without an expedient, however, as, upon examination, I discovered that the door had, as well as the latch string hole, another small hole bored below the latch bar, doubtless put there by someone who had used the room before myself.
"This permits," I said to Elizabeth, indicating the small hole below the latch bar, "the complex knot".
"What is that?" she asked.
- (Assassin of Gor, Chapter 5)