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| 37 | 571 | It takes View more quotes about time">time, of course, to reload the crossbow. |
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| 37 | 568 | "I do not think he is within," said the lieutenant. |
| 37 | 569 | The man slowly, reluctantly, went to the center of the threshold. |
| 37 | 570 | He stood there. |
| 37 | 571 | It takes time, of course, to reload the crossbow. |
| 37 | 572 | That interval of time, I gathered, figured in the lieutenant's calculations. |
| 37 | 573 | After several seconds, the man standing there in the portal, silhouetted by the light behind him, the lieutenant, unwilling to lose more time, indicated that one man, preceded by his fair shield of two, should enter and go to the left, and another, he, too, preceded by his shield of two, to the right. |
| 37 | 574 | After an interval of about four paces, the lieutenant, with two slaves, followed the man who had gone to the right, and the other man, with his two slaves, followed he who had gone to the left. |