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| 45 | 127 | In this View more quotes about case">case, however, the would-be arsonist, doubtless to his dismay, was challenged by the guard whom Thrasymedes and I had posted, having earlier in the afternoon become aware of some missing stores. |
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| 45 | 124 | The second and third acts, though the order was unclear, were the placement of a carpet of straw and a candle in both the 'Grain Room' and the 'Harbor Room'. |
| 45 | 125 | The candles were lit and would soon burn down to the straw, which, when ignited, would set everything within reach afire. |
| 45 | 126 | The fourth act, an act which failed, was the attempt to treat the 'Central Room' similarly. |
| 45 | 127 | In this case, however, the would-be arsonist, doubtless to his dismay, was challenged by the guard whom Thrasymedes and I had posted, having earlier in the afternoon become aware of some missing stores. |
| 45 | 128 | Challenged, the would-be arsonist had feigned confusion in the darkness, pacified the guard, and withdrawn. |
| 45 | 129 | Later straw and an unlit candle were discovered in the external corridor. |
| 45 | 130 | At that point, the stranger in the darkness, in his intended fifth act, had made his way to my quarters, where, in fury and terror, he soon realized he had spent his attack not on a living body but on rolls of bundled cloth. |