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| 37 | 173 | Many View more quotes about sent">sent had failed to return, and those who had returned had nothing of substance to report. |
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| 37 | 170 | "Speak," said Tuza. |
| 37 | 171 | "It was I," said Darla, "who in disguise at a trading point on the Laurius became first apprised of solicitations by the employer, seeking informants and scouts, to investigate rumors of a great ship being built near the headwaters of the Alexandra. |
| 37 | 172 | He found few who would essay this task, for a great raiding party had recently been decimated in the northern forests. |
| 37 | 173 | Many sent had failed to return, and those who had returned had nothing of substance to report. |
| 37 | 174 | Ships sent to the mouth of the Alexandra had discovered nothing, and some apparently had fallen to pirates. |
| 37 | 175 | It took me little time to discover that the employer had considerable, if finite, resources at his disposal. |
| 37 | 176 | Indeed, he had, in the absence of other intelligence, organized a small army, recruited from a dozen cities, to close the mouth of the Alexandra, to prevent the exiting of this ship, should it exist. |