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Still the projected schedule might have been satisfied, save for Tajima's concern to protect Sumomo from a fate of which she had no inkling, a concern apparently agreeable to, and accepted by, Pertinax. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 21, Sentence #250)

The supper had lasted somewhat longer than anticipated. Still there would have been time. Then there had been the incidents of the reader, Tatsu, and the subsequent attack of the presumed assassin, whose charge of death had been disrupted in its progress by Pertinax. Still the projected schedule might have been satisfied, save for Tajima's concern to protect Sumomo from a fate of which she had no inkling, a concern apparently agreeable to, and accepted by, Pertinax. I admired the latter, that he would abet his fellow, at much personal hazard, in that desperate venture. Such delays took time, and, too, more time would have been used in the journey than had been originally anticipated, even beyond the margin of delay allowed for in the original plan, given the unanticipated presence of two women, one of whom, I gathered, had been carried for some time. "Some twenty Ehn later," said Sumomo, "their fears of the departure of their fellow, to my relief, were confirmed, for the point of rendezvous had apparently been reached, a sheltered glade more than a hundred paces from the road. - (Rebels of Gor)