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What I did not understand was why a crime, serious as it might be, against a minor banking house in Ar, far away, thousands of pasangs away, should provoke so much interest in so many parties, and generate so seemingly relentless a pursuit of its perpetrator. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 25, Sentence #133)

There might be many, I suspected, who might wish to apprehend the lovely Adraste, the former Lady Julia Leta of Ar. Annoyed with her or not, I did not envy her, the vulnerable prey sought by intent hunters. How dreadful, I thought, to be suspended naked in a dangling cage on Ar's street of Coins, a warning to any who might contemplate making free with the resources of others. What I did not understand was why a crime, serious as it might be, against a minor banking house in Ar, far away, thousands of pasangs away, should provoke so much interest in so many parties, and generate so seemingly relentless a pursuit of its perpetrator. "Perhaps you are curious," he said, "as to how I, with but a single leg, I, one so cruelly handicapped, might rescue the unfortunate Lady Felitia Thaliana. Yes, you are interested. There are forces about which are alien to Port Kar, and, I think, to the world, as well. - (Quarry of Gor)