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| 26 | 250 | "No alarms have been sounded! There has been no View more quotes about attack">attack on us!" All of this made little sense to Ellen, for she had supposed that the confiscated, gathered wealth of a dozen cities, and hundreds of smaller communities, destined for the troops of Cos and Tyros, and the regiments of mercenaries in Ar abetting their occupation, was in this very camp, that because of the numerous guards, the tharlarion, the war tarns. |
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| 26 | 247 | Then, pressing her heels as closely as she could to her body, to try to relieve a bit of the stress of the leash, she listened to the voices. |
| 26 | 248 | "The pay for the garrison at Ar has been purloined!" she heard. |
| 26 | 249 | "It cannot be," cried a man. |
| 26 | 250 | "No alarms have been sounded! There has been no attack on us!" All of this made little sense to Ellen, for she had supposed that the confiscated, gathered wealth of a dozen cities, and hundreds of smaller communities, destined for the troops of Cos and Tyros, and the regiments of mercenaries in Ar abetting their occupation, was in this very camp, that because of the numerous guards, the tharlarion, the war tarns. |
| 26 | 251 | She suspected that Portus Canio and Fel Doron had been under this impression as well. |
| 26 | 252 | Indeed, she suspected, though it was scarcely a matter of which slaves might speak, that Portus Canio and Fel Doron, and, supposedly, Tersius Major, had planned to strike at this treasure, in order to weaken and worsen the occupation in Ar, to outrage the garrison posted there, to outrage both the mercenaries and regulars, and perhaps even sow discord amongst them. |
| 26 | 253 | "It was not here," she heard. |