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Once withdrawn I stationed my men about the stable, encircling it fully, lest any makeshift exit be attempted. - (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter 19, Sentence #186)

A similar danger, of course, but one considerably less, would attend the use of lamps, whose flames were small, and whose effects might be more easily smothered or stamped out. To be sure, the lamps would cast less light, and the dangers, accordingly, to those who entered would be the greater. What I did hope was that the foes within, if any were there, would suppose that the attending commander, in this case myself, preferred discretion to a hazardous intrusion into darkness. Once withdrawn I stationed my men about the stable, encircling it fully, lest any makeshift exit be attempted. I set archers in place, particularly in the vicinity of the entrance, and, in support, Ashigaru. I put some men to the gathering of firewood. I also sent several men to the training area, to storage sheds which were adjacent to several of the improvised tarn cots. - (Swordsmen of Gor)