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| 16 | 22 | "And the attack would not View more quotes about take">take place late in the day," I said, "because of the possibility of survivors escaping under the cover of darkness". |
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| 16 | 19 | "The attack presumably did not take place at dawn," said Grunt, "and, presumably, it would not have occurred late in the day". |
| 16 | 20 | "Your surmise is based on the scattering of the wagons," I said, "that they are not defensively circled, but are aligned, as for the march". |
| 16 | 21 | "Yes," said Grunt. |
| 16 | 22 | "And the attack would not take place late in the day," I said, "because of the possibility of survivors escaping under the cover of darkness". |
| 16 | 23 | "That is it," said Grunt. |
| 16 | 24 | "It is my speculation that the wagons were being opened and aligned for the march". |
| 16 | 25 | "If that is true," I said, "we should find the remains of evening fires, large cooking fires, with circled stones, near the wagons, not the absence of fires, nor the smaller remains of midday fires". |