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| 54 | 172 | View more quotes about shortly">Shortly after this the slaves had begun to meet. |
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| 54 | 169 | The Sleen had taken the Hobarts to serve as boys, performing lowly tasks and doing such things as watching kaiila. |
| 54 | 170 | The girls they had taken for the common purposes for which luscious white females are employed by red masters. |
| 54 | 171 | During their time with the Sleen apparently Max and Kyle Hobart, unable to help themselves any longer, and finding the girls staked out, naked, in a desolate place, presumably as punishment, perhaps for some minor infraction, or some supposed lack of total pleasingness, had raped them. |
| 54 | 172 | Shortly after this the slaves had begun to meet. |
| 54 | 173 | These meetings were typical of the clandestine trysts of slaves. |
| 54 | 174 | They took place in the shadows, behind lodges and at places marked in the high grass, where they might lie in one another's arms, if only fearfully and briefly, fearing the step of a master, the shadow of a whip. |
| 54 | 175 | It was in these days, and in these meetings, so different from the alcoves of Kailiauk, that the girls learned that they were the slaves of the Hobarts and the Hobarts learned to their joy that they, though themselves collared, owned slaves. |