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| 12 | 262 | The regent's View more quotes about message">message, I was sure, had been removed from, or had never been inserted in, the letter cylinder. |
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| 12 | 259 | "And what is your story?" she asked. |
| 12 | 260 | "I am a courier of Gnieus Lelius, Regent of Ar," I said, "mistaken for a spy". |
| 12 | 261 | I was sure that there was significant treachery in Ar, and in high places. |
| 12 | 262 | The regent's message, I was sure, had been removed from, or had never been inserted in, the letter cylinder. |
| 12 | 263 | A substitution had been made, doubtless, of the contents of the cylinder or of cylinders themselves. |
| 12 | 264 | I had not, of course, seen the regent place the message in the cylinder and seal it. |
| 12 | 265 | There would be nothing unusual in that, of course, for it is not required that couriers be present at such times. |