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| 25 | 141 | I did not View more quotes about know">know what secret it contained. |
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| 25 | 138 | "The security of this cipher," smiled Bosk, "lies not in itself, as a cipher, but rather, as is common, that it is not understood as a cipher. |
| 25 | 139 | It is not, for example, a strange message written upon a scrap of paper, calling attention to itself as a secret communication, challenging the curious to its unraveling, but apparently only an innocent necklace, beaded with wood, common, vulgar and cheap, fit only for the throat of a lowly female slave". |
| 25 | 140 | Samos lifted the necklace. |
| 25 | 141 | I did not know what secret it contained. |
| 25 | 142 | "Further," said he who was called Bosk of Port Kar, "the slave herself did not understand the nature of her role in these matters. |
| 25 | 143 | She did not, for a long time, even understand that she bore the message. |
| 25 | 144 | Great security was achieved, too, in the manner of releasing the behavior of stringing the beads and in the counter-suggestion that she be unable to recall the order of the beads without the appropriate trigger structure being reconstructed". |