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What an insult, profound and grievous, was this to his blood, and to the throne of Ar! He thus disowned her as his daughter, and had had her sequestered in the Central Cylinder, that her shame might be concealed from the city and the world. Had she not been free when she was delivered to Ar it is quite probable she would have been whipped and sold out of the city. Had she, when free, and not slave, been guilty of a stain on the honor of Ar she might well have been publicly impaled. "But he asked, again, and again, in his slow, childlike way, who now, be it only in name, ruled in Ar," said one of the men on the beach, "and the partisans took council, and decided to risk the disclosure, though they knew not what effect it might have". "'Talena,' he was told," said another, "'daughter of Marlenus of Ar. '" "Then," said another, "as the story has it, he lifted his head, and his whole mien changed, and his body seemed to become larger and filled with power, and his eyes took on a strange, fierce, wicked gleam, and he said, quietly, and not in his slow, innocent, puzzled, childlike voice, but in another voice, a voice like iron and ice, 'Marlenus of Ar has no daughter. '" "The partisans looked to one another, their eyes alight," said a man. - (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter )