Not brigands, but mercenaries! But who could hire mercenaries, she asked herself.
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Cos, she thought, Cos! There was no sign of Tersius Major.
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Moving in the basket, facing forward, peering again through the wicker, she saw the first tarnsman who had approached the train swoop beneath it, beat his way forward, and then seize the long rope dangling better than a hundred feet from the harness of the first tarn, that which had been the fourth in the original train.
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He wound this rope about the pommel of his saddle and brought his bird to the lead.
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Slowly the train fell into line behind him.
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Turning about, Ellen saw the second tarnsman was now following the last tarn, and was some fifty to seventy yards behind it.
Mercenaries, she thought.
Not brigands, but mercenaries! But who could hire mercenaries, she asked herself.
Cos, she thought, Cos! There was no sign of Tersius Major.
Moving in the basket, facing forward, peering again through the wicker, she saw the first tarnsman who had approached the train swoop beneath it, beat his way forward, and then seize the long rope dangling better than a hundred feet from the harness of the first tarn, that which had been the fourth in the original train.
He wound this rope about the pommel of his saddle and brought his bird to the lead.
Slowly the train fell into line behind him.
Turning about, Ellen saw the second tarnsman was now following the last tarn, and was some fifty to seventy yards behind it.
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter )