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While vessels followed our putative course, and the balance of the pirate fleet, regrouping and repairing injuries, waited upon their return, we sped, in alternating shifts, day and night, toward the holding of Policrates. - (Guardsman of Gor, Chapter 10, Sentence #82)

By dusk we had come to the northern break in the chain, that produced by the second portion of the Voskjard's fleet. Utilizing this opening, the first produced by the buccaneers' incursions, we turned east by southeast. We had little doubt that we would be pursued first, mistakenly, northwestward toward Tetrapoli. While vessels followed our putative course, and the balance of the pirate fleet, regrouping and repairing injuries, waited upon their return, we sped, in alternating shifts, day and night, toward the holding of Policrates. My original plan, I was confident, had it not been for its betrayal, would have gained us admittance into the holding. I could not hear the discourse which took place between Kliomenes and Miles of Vonda, but I knew, and well, its nature. "What is it which becomes whole when stones are joined?" "That ship which sails a topaz sea". - (Guardsman of Gor, Chapter 10)