Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 25 | 61 | Haruki, as I understood it, some days ago, had been apprehended in, or in the vicinity of, the cot where attendants of Lord Yamada housed his small, swift-flighted, messengers. |
| 25 | 62 | I did not doubt but what some might have come from as far away as the holding of Lord Temmu. |
| 25 | 63 | Haruki, I gathered, had attempted to reach the cot, where he would attempt to attach my tiny message, in English, to the leg of one of the vulos captured by Yamada's men from the surprised and seized secret cot, remote from the palace, which vulos would doubtless, for identificatory purposes, be independently caged. |
| 25 | 64 | He was then to release the bird, and trust that it would home to the message cot of the holding of Temmu. |
| 25 | 65 | Lord Temmu would then attempt to find an informant capable of understanding the message. |
| 25 | 66 | And I could conceive of only two, to my knowledge, who would be able to do so, Tajima and Pertinax. |
| 25 | 67 | But Haruki had failed. |
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Haruki, as I understood it, some days ago, had been apprehended in, or in the vicinity of, the cot where attendants of Lord Yamada housed his small, swift-flighted, messengers.
I did not doubt but what some might have come from as far away as the holding of Lord Temmu.
Haruki, I gathered, had attempted to reach the cot, where he would attempt to attach my tiny message, in English, to the leg of one of the vulos captured by Yamada's men from the surprised and seized secret cot, remote from the palace, which vulos would doubtless, for identificatory purposes, be independently caged.
He was then to release the bird, and trust that it would home to the message cot of the holding of Temmu.
Lord Temmu would then attempt to find an informant capable of understanding the message.
And I could conceive of only two, to my knowledge, who would be able to do so, Tajima and Pertinax.
But Haruki had failed.
- (Rebels of Gor, Chapter )