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I now understood more clearly than before why earlier messengers or agents might have failed to make contact with the regent and high general. - (Mercenaries of Gor, Chapter 19, Sentence #483)

I was now convinced more than ever of their importance, but also of the danger of carrying them. The Taurentians were far from Ar. I suspected that it was their mission, on behalf of some high-placed power in Ar, to sift through refugees and travelers, seeking out those who might be inimical to their interests, or party, in Ar. I now understood more clearly than before why earlier messengers or agents might have failed to make contact with the regent and high general. I was, as I recalled, seemingly not the first to have been dispatched upon this delicate mission. Doubtless Ephialtes, in possession of the letters of safety, had been mistaken for an agent of Dietrich of Tarnburg. I shuddered. - (Mercenaries of Gor)