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Book 33. (396 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
41	1	We Rendezvous; Notes are Exchanged; Haruki Misses his Garden "I am pleased to see you alive, noble ones," said Haruki.	10
61	107	He had had four tarns in his keeping, those on which he, Tajima, Pertinax, Haruki, and myself had ventured south, Haruki behind the saddle of Tajima.	10
61	433	As she was given to assisting Haruki in the garden, Lord Yamada naturally assumed that Haruki, who was a free man, owned her.	10
61	434	It seemed she bore some resemblance to one who had once been Lord Yamada's favorite wife, she who had been the daughter of Haruki, and the mother of, amongst others, Nodachi, whom Haruki had saved from the strangler's cord.	10
21	16	Near me, the gardener, Haruki, silently, was pruning shrubbery.	10
21	22	"Tal," I said to Haruki.	10
21	46	"He is shogun," said Haruki.	10
21	69	Haruki had now, perhaps gratefully, distanced himself from me, and my doubtless prying, unwelcome questions.	10
21	104	Haruki was elsewhere.	10
23	1	I Converse with Haruki The Night Singers were abroad in the fields.	10
23	3	"Your name is Haruki," I said.	10
23	25	"That cannot be," said Haruki.	10
23	27	"I do not see how it could be," said Haruki.	10
23	39	"Perhaps it was intended to do so," said Haruki.	10
23	43	"How else could he reach the garden?" asked Haruki.	10
23	47	"Then," said Haruki, "the garden having been entered earlier, from within the palace, the assailant conceals himself, and, like a sheathed knife, awaits his opportunity".	10
23	49	"There is no other explanation, noble one," said Haruki.	10
23	52	"That is not possible, noble one," said Haruki.	10
23	55	"Through the palace, earlier," said Haruki.	10
23	57	"It is large," said Haruki.	10
23	59	"It is not possible, noble one," said Haruki.	10
23	76	"Will you now summon Ashigaru?" inquired Haruki.	10
23	78	"I do not understand," said Haruki.	10
23	80	"Yes, noble one," said Haruki.	10
23	82	"I know," said Haruki.	10
23	84	"I know," said Haruki.	10
23	86	"That is so, noble one," said Haruki.	10
23	90	"I will reveal no others," said Haruki.	10
23	93	"You are a guest of the shogun," said Haruki.	10
23	101	"Your chances of escape are small," said Haruki, looking about.	10
23	111	"Perhaps even to the house of Temmu?" said Haruki.	10
23	115	"The straw jacket is unpleasant," said Haruki.	10
23	136	"So that none will rise to challenge him," said Haruki.	10
23	156	"There are always such rumors," said Haruki, "for years, meaningless rumors, rumors whispered in the darkness, rumors spoken about small fires while the rice boiled, the rumor of a spared son, a lost son, an escaped son, a returning son, one who would seek his father's blood, who would do vengeance ...	10
23	158	"It is borne by many of the strangled sons," said Haruki.	10
23	161	"I should have killed the child," said Haruki.	10
23	215	"Possibly," said Haruki.	10
23	218	"Possibly," said Haruki.	10
23	249	"Yes?" said Haruki.	10
23	252	"There are only ashes now," said Haruki.	10
23	257	"I am a fool!" "How so?" said Haruki, warily.	10
23	258	"Are you assured the message vulos of the secret cot were slain, as well as their keepers?" "It is thought so," said Haruki.	10
23	264	"Would he not keep some birds, who would home to the holding of Temmu, that he might make use of them upon occasion, perhaps to mislead the forces of Temmu, say, putting them at their ease, while he plotted swift and devastating actions?" "Surely there would be some sign enclosed with the messages, ...	10
23	278	"If there are such," said Haruki.	10
23	288	"You are too much watched," said Haruki.	10
23	298	"You might also," said Haruki, "inform the house of Temmu of the projected fate of the beauteous Lady Sumomo.	10
23	304	"I am troubled," said Haruki.	10
23	306	"It is difficult to choose a path," said Haruki.	10
23	308	"They should find it of interest," said Haruki.	10
23	310	"When is she to make the acquaintance of the eels?" "There are hundreds, half starved," said Haruki.	10
23	316	"As long as you are his guest," said Haruki.	10
24	35	"I know one named Haruki," I said.	10
25	61	Haruki, as I understood it, some days ago, had been apprehended in, or in the vicinity of, the cot where attendants of Lord Yamada housed his small, swift-flighted, messengers.	10
25	63	Haruki, I gathered, had attempted to reach the cot, where he would attempt to attach my tiny message, in English, to the leg of one of the vulos captured by Yamada's men from the surprised and seized secret cot, remote from the palace, which vulos would doubtless, for identificatory purposes, be ind...	10
25	67	But Haruki had failed.	10
25	84	I had heard that Haruki, with several others, was to wear the straw jacket.	10
25	126	Haruki had failed.	10
25	273	"He must be in the saddle within Ehn!" Haruki, I thought, wildly, had not failed! The tiny message, fastened to the left foot of the vulo, held in its flight against its belly, half hidden in its plumage, days ago, had made its way to the cot in the holding of Temmu! Suddenly the vast shadow of the ...	10
25	341	Haruki had risked much for me.	10
26	63	Once we were out of sight, I would introduce myself to Haruki.	10
27	1	We Have Departed from the Tunnel "Wade," said Haruki.	10
27	33	The nineteen prisoners who had been sentenced to the straw jacket with Haruki had slipped, one by one, from the tunnel.	10
27	34	"Are you still there?" I asked Haruki.	10
27	51	"It is possible," said Haruki, "were the village known, and the fugitive considered dangerous.	10
27	57	"Too," said Haruki, "villages are sources of wealth.	10
27	61	"And it is possible that murdering many for the crimes of one, or a few," said Haruki, "might occasion resentment".	10
27	93	In the total darkness, touching the sides of the small tunnel, in which one could not stand upright, I followed Haruki.	10
27	95	"I have one regret," said Haruki.	10
27	101	Haruki, however, with an earnestness which seemed incongruous with his normal composure, had forbade this venture and I, however reluctantly, had acknowledged the wisdom of his counsel.	10
27	112	"Besides," had said Haruki, "the march begins at dawn, and coffles might accompany the march".	10
27	140	"True," said Haruki.	10
27	142	"He is unlikely to postpone the march of thousands of men for such a purpose," said Haruki.	10
27	145	"The noble one forgets," said Haruki, "that the cavalry is likely to suppose you are still in the palace".	10
27	153	"It will take you days to reach the north," said Haruki.	10
27	159	"The noble one is correct," observed Haruki.	10
27	161	"That would be helpful," said Haruki.	10
27	165	"Why do you say that?" asked Haruki, wading ahead of me.	10
27	169	"It is my understanding that such birds occasionally utter a loud, shrill cry," said Haruki.	10
27	171	"You were in the palace, and on the palace grounds, for days," said Haruki.	10
27	173	"Then," said Haruki, "it is likely some means of communication linked the palace with a more distant point".	10
27	176	"You have in mind secret, forbidden devices?" asked Haruki.	10
27	178	"I know little of Priest-Kings, or their laws, or thoughts," said Haruki, "or that there are Priest-Kings, or that they think, but there are many ways to communicate quickly, to transmit even complex messages, explaining situations, issuing instructions, indicating directions, and such.	10
27	182	"I am puzzled," said Haruki.	10
27	184	"Why do you think Lord Yamada has initiated this campaign?" asked Haruki.	10
27	201	"It is growing light," said Haruki.	10
28	1	In a Yamada Village We Await Nightfall I sat cross-legged in the small hut, across from Haruki, fingering millet into my mouth.	10
28	4	"Perhaps we will be betrayed," I said to Haruki, looking about.	10
28	5	"I do not think so," said Haruki.	10
28	8	"Yes," said Haruki.	10
28	13	"It is here, in such a village," said Haruki, "where the burdens of the shogun are most sorely felt, that we are least likely to be betrayed".	10
28	35	"What is your concern?" asked Haruki.	10
28	43	"I see your concern," said Haruki.	10
29	3	"There," said Haruki, "at the back of the hut, in the corner".	10
29	12	"Be silent," said Haruki, "lest you be gagged".	10
29	15	"Perhaps, as of now," said Haruki.	10
29	24	"I recognized him, outside," said Haruki.	10
29	25	This made sense to me, as Haruki might well remember him from the palace of Yamada, on the fateful afternoon and evening of the supper.	10
29	54	I recalled how dismayed I had been when, en route to the palace road, to free Haruki and his fellows, if possible, I had seen the two tarns streaking northward, and one mounted doubtless by dangerous and pertinacious Tyrtaios, who, I feared, possessed the subtlety, training, and weaponry of the dark...	10
29	95	"She is barefoot, and has but a single garment," said Haruki.	10
29	98	"She needs a bath," said Haruki.	10
29	122	"Beware," said Haruki, "a slave is to be obedient, respectful, deferent, and pleasing".	10
29	170	"She eats like a ravenous slave," said Haruki.	10
29	179	"It is now dark," said Haruki.	10
29	224	"It is nearly dark," said Haruki.	10
29	236	"Head down," said Haruki.	10
29	264	"She will have to have a new name," said Haruki.	10
29	266	"True," said Haruki.	10
29	302	"It is dark," said Haruki, looking outside.	10
29	316	"Cut her throat," said Haruki.	10
29	318	"We must reach the next village before dawn," said Haruki.	10
29	321	"Ah," said Haruki.	10
29	325	Haruki no longer suggested doing away with the captive.	10
29	330	"I will take these things out and burn them," said Haruki.	10
29	346	Haruki soon returned to the hut.	10
29	362	The loops of knotted rope dangled from Haruki's hand.	10
29	377	"You would use the daughter of the shogun for pleasure?" asked Haruki.	10
29	388	"Would it not encircle your neck, nicely?" asked Haruki.	10
29	394	"It is," said Haruki, "it is a collar, a slave collar, a collar for a slave".	10
29	416	How beautiful a woman is in a collar, and how meaningful is the collar on her neck! "You will have to hold her tightly," said Haruki.	10
29	418	"It must not be blurred or spoiled," said Haruki.	10
29	422	"As soon as I learned of your presence here," said Haruki, "given the possible eventuations involved, I instructed the village metal worker to have an iron ready".	10
29	425	"I shall fetch the brazier," said Haruki.	10
29	437	In a bit, Haruki returned, bearing, on its carrying ring, insulated with folds of cloth, a brazier, from which two handles protruded.	10
29	446	"More likely," said Haruki, "as a branded little beast, he would merely throw you to them naked".	10
29	457	"Let us beat her," said Haruki, the cluster of knotted ropes once more dangling from his hand.	10
29	544	"I shall return the brazier and irons," said Haruki.	10
30	24	I was to one side, behind a silken screen, sitting cross-legged with Haruki, before another table.	10
30	27	"It is a dragon," had said Haruki.	10
30	47	Our practice, until recently, had been to house ourselves in selected villages, some known to Haruki, and some scouted by him, in the daylight Ahn, and then move, again, at night.	10
30	72	"We have a coin for rice," had said Haruki.	10
30	74	"Yes," said Haruki.	10
30	77	"Have you seen one before?" asked Haruki.	10
30	79	Haruki removed a string from about his neck, and drew it forth, from beneath his long, gray shirt.	10
30	82	"No," said Haruki.	10
30	84	"Do not approach more closely," said Haruki.	10
30	86	"That is true," said Haruki.	10
30	105	"But two swords," said Haruki.	10
30	107	"One coin for four fukuros of rice," said Haruki.	10
30	108	As far as I could gather, this offer was quite generous on the part of Haruki, perhaps exceedingly so.	10
30	111	"I am not a high, noble person," said Haruki, "who may be fooled, deluded, and tricked by the first grasping, greedy peasant met on the road.	10
30	114	"Why?" said Haruki.	10
30	210	"Do not be so sure, noble one," said Haruki.	10
30	212	"I do not think he knows us, noble one," said Haruki, "but I think he is suspicious.	10
30	218	"It is all too easy," said Haruki.	10
30	220	"I know these people," said Haruki.	10
30	231	"Wise Haruki," I said.	10
30	254	Haruki may have been overly suspicious.	10
30	294	After our small repast, which she cooked and served, naked, utilizing some simple vessels and bowls extracted from the packs of Haruki and Tajima, she was allowed to feed, and don again the rag of the field slave.	10
30	418	"And you, Haruki, gardener san?" he asked.	10
30	419	"She is quite different from she whom I once knew as Sumomo," said Haruki.	10
30	443	"Perhaps now," said Haruki, "she is more appealing to her master".	10
30	460	"No," said Haruki.	10
30	467	Haruki and I withdrew.	10
30	674	Behind the dragon screen, with Haruki, I was annoyed, as the innkeeper seemed clearly interested in selling another vessel of sake.	10
30	713	The innkeeper, of course, was well aware that Haruki and I were about, but, as we were behind the screen, I doubted that the Ashigaru were aware of our presence, or, if aware of it, were in the least concerned.	10
30	717	I leaped to my feet, but Haruki's hand, seizing my sleeve, gave me pause.	10
30	734	Haruki indicated the kitchen entrance to the eating hall, through which we might exit, to rendezvous outside with Tajima and the slave.	10
30	800	Behind the dragon screen, Haruki whispered to me, "I am afraid".	10
31	1	The Inn Has Visitors Haruki had scarcely confessed his apprehension when, suddenly, with boisterous shouts and a rushing of bodies, several men crowded into the inn, hurrying through both the main entrance and, I gathered, the rear entrance, as they emerged into the eating hall through the door lea...	10
31	3	"Do not touch your weapons," I heard, "or you die!" The tanto was ripped from my belt, and Haruki, too, was relieved of his knife.	10
31	6	With a miscellany of blades and clubs Haruki and I, after a bit, bound, were ushered about the screen.	10
31	121	Haruki and I, bound, had been standing to one side.	10
31	129	Arashi turned to his men, and gestured to the bound warriors, and to Haruki and myself.	10
31	132	"Here!" called one of the intruders, tearing the string of coins, not many coins, to be sure, from the neck of Haruki.	10
31	139	"These two," asked Arashi, indicating Haruki and myself, "are not with the young warrior, and the slave?" "No," said he whom I had taken to be the innkeeper.	10
31	149	"Do not turn to me, high one," said Haruki.	10
31	202	"And what of these two?" asked Arashi, indicating Haruki and myself.	10
31	239	"What of these?" asked one of the intruders, indicating Haruki and myself.	10
32	15	Haruki and I backed against the dragon screen which fell, and, stumbling, ruining it, fell behind it, and then struggled up, past the low table, our backs to the side of the inn.	10
32	78	"Come back!" cried Haruki.	10
32	124	I then relieved Haruki of his bonds.	10
32	130	Haruki was coughing.	10
32	165	No sooner had Yasushi, Tajima, Haruki, and myself exited the inn than the ceiling collapsed.	10
33	1	We Will Depart from the Vicinity of the Inn "There," said Haruki.	10
33	5	"Warriors, all," said Haruki, marveling.	10
33	8	"How many?" I asked Haruki.	10
33	9	"I see twenty, with a high officer," said Haruki.	10
33	20	"I do not understand," I said to Haruki.	10
33	22	"It does not bode well, noble one," said Haruki.	10
33	27	"I feared as much," said Haruki.	10
33	31	"Consider warriors," said Haruki, "twenty, consider the absence of Ashigaru, consider one who leads, a special officer to the shogun".	10
33	33	"Yes, noble one," said Haruki.	10
33	36	Haruki had informed us of two men who had slipped from the village.	10
33	37	It was the village from which we had stolen away, using Haruki's makeshift ladder, high enough to clear the palisade.	10
33	39	"I fear not," said Haruki.	10
33	41	"It is clearly an unusual party, a special party," said Haruki.	10
33	43	"I fear so," said Haruki.	10
33	44	"And we," I said, "are the object of its pursuit?" "I fear so," said Haruki.	10
33	46	"Sometimes," said Haruki, "there is no sign".	10
34	4	"But these two," said Yasushi, indicating Haruki and myself, "are not with the other two.	10
35	9	"For me," said Haruki, "I, as I, too, will be known, and the matter of the message vulos will be recalled, will perish unpleasantly.	10
35	26	"I do not think," said Haruki, "the noble lord is overfond of a gardener, one who frequents a cot of message vulos".	10
35	28	"I think he fears you," said Haruki.	10
35	54	Following Tajima came the heavy rice cart, drawn by Haruki and myself.	10
36	5	Then, the descriptions of Haruki and myself, as the other two of the "four," would presumably suffice for our identification, even before we might be brought before him.	10
36	12	"Haruki feeds," I said.	10
36	25	"Behold," said Haruki.	10
36	42	Tajima, Haruki, and I received this communication with silence.	10
36	52	"What of myself, and my friend?" I asked, indicating Haruki.	10
36	80	"Those two men," whispered Haruki, "are not men of the shogun.	10
37	2	"I fear for the noble Tajima," said Haruki.	10
37	7	"That is a saying?" said Haruki.	10
37	9	"What is an ox?" asked Haruki.	10
37	11	"What is a Home Stone?" inquired Haruki.	10
37	13	"It is very important?" said Haruki.	10
37	15	"It is hard to understand," said Haruki.	10
37	17	"It is as the garden?" said Haruki.	10
37	19	"It is perhaps then not so lowly to be of the peasants," said Haruki.	10
37	21	"It is the ox on which the Home Stone rests," said Haruki.	10
37	23	"And it is an old saying," said Haruki.	10
37	25	"I am pleased," said Haruki.	10
37	31	"What of Nezumi?" asked Haruki.	10
37	35	"I see," said Haruki.	10
37	36	"I am also sure, of course," I said, "he would be willing, as would the shogun, to sacrifice her instantly for political reasons, but why do so, if there is no advantage in doing so?" "Where is she now?" asked Haruki.	10
37	39	"You conjecture that both Tajima and Nezumi are alive," said Haruki.	10
37	42	"We are supposed to be interrogated in the morning," said Haruki.	10
37	46	"No, noble one," said Haruki.	10
37	53	"Ela," said Haruki, sadly.	10
37	56	"The bars are closely set and deeply planted," said Haruki.	10
37	59	"What of the prisoners?" asked Haruki.	10
37	61	"The bars, I suspect," said Haruki, "would be planted deeply enough".	10
37	63	"The camp is armed," said Haruki.	10
37	66	"How so?" asked Haruki.	10
37	73	"Much of this is conjectural," said Haruki.	10
37	76	"I?" said Haruki.	10
37	79	"And it is on such as I," said Haruki, "that the Home Stone rests?" "Precisely," I said.	10
38	10	"Torch!" whispered Haruki, our lookout.	10
38	17	Haruki had done his work well, and recruits were about, aplenty.	10
38	24	"How does it proceed, noble one?" inquired Haruki.	10
38	26	"Good," said Haruki.	10
38	29	"I am sure some palings are loosening," said Haruki.	10
38	32	"I fear that is true," said Haruki, looking back toward the gate.	10
38	34	"In places, that might be possible," said Haruki.	10
38	46	"It is going to rain," said Haruki.	10
38	48	"The night will be overcast, and the darkness will deepen," said Haruki.	10
38	52	"What is not good," said Haruki, "is that tracks may linger in rain-softened soil".	10
38	57	"We must dislodge palings swiftly," said Haruki.	10
38	76	I wondered how Haruki had managed to recruit his small legions.	10
38	87	"Noble one," said Haruki.	10
38	100	"We are to be removed from the pen in darkness," said Haruki.	10
38	110	"They approach," said Haruki.	10
38	124	"What you come upon, kill! Lanterns forward! Lanterns forward!" Only Haruki remained behind.	10
38	127	"What is life without its garden?" said Haruki.	10
38	133	I thought my back might break, but Haruki crawled through the opening, and I threw myself free of the heavy paling which then fell back, as it could, into place.	10
38	138	As soon as I was beyond the palings, I cried out, "Bowmen of Temmu, fire on the first tarsk who emerges from the pen!" I moved back in the darkness with Haruki.	10
38	150	"You did well, friend Haruki," I said, "in your recruiting.	10
38	151	How did you manage it, peasants, and peasants from different villages, suspicious, grasping fellows, wary of men of quality, working together, joining in such a common effort?" "I told them, noble one," said Haruki, "that they were the ox on which the Home Stone rests".	10
38	153	"I do not think so, noble one," said Haruki, "but they were pleased".	10
39	6	I surmised that the fugitives, including Haruki and myself, would be expected to depart the camp as quickly as possible.	10
39	8	Haruki and I, however, would not be amongst them, at least not now.	10
39	11	I had dispatched Haruki to locate Nezumi.	10
39	110	"I have a friend about," I said, "a Pani gardener, named Haruki, you do not know him, but were it not for him, a colleague and guide, it is unlikely I would be here.	10
39	117	I hope to meet Haruki near the center of the camp.	10
40	135	Haruki is trying to determine the matter.	10
40	181	"Haruki should be in the vicinity of the shogun's tent," I said.	10
40	184	"Haruki may have word of her," I said.	10
41	8	"Nonetheless, friend Haruki," I said, "have you located the unimportant, even despicable, slave, in whom Tajima has little, or no, interest?" We moved back a bit amongst the tents, as a squad of glaive-bearing Ashigaru, in double file, sped past.	10
41	9	"That is the sixth search squad dispatched into the camp while I have been here," said Haruki.	10
41	17	"A single seeker, astute and suspicious, might do so," said Haruki, "turn back, but a directed party is almost certain to have its route delineated in advance, a route from which it is unlikely to deviate, indeed, one from which it might be dangerous to deviate, given the discipline of Lord Yamada".	10
41	19	"I think so," said Haruki.	10
41	23	"Barbarians are strange," said Haruki.	10
41	32	"First," said Haruki, "many officers have slaves in their retinue".	10
41	34	"True," said Haruki.	10
41	45	"Patience, young noble one," said Haruki.	10
41	54	"It seemed likely to me, as well," said Haruki, "that Nezumi would be concealed amongst other slaves.	10
41	57	"Haruki will not have had time to examine twelve enclaves," I said.	10
41	58	"Eight of the enclaves are slave pens," said Haruki, "and four are slave tents".	10
41	61	"I agree, noble one," said Haruki.	10
41	64	"Yes, and no," said Haruki.	10
41	67	"I think so, young noble one," said Haruki, "but I am not sure".	10
41	69	"I made inquiries," said Haruki, "pretending that I was inquiring for an officer, what might be the arrangements for the inspection and purchase of slaves".	10
41	73	"At present," said Haruki.	10
41	75	"It is isolated, remote, near the perimeter of the camp," said Haruki.	10
41	77	"I did not see her, of course," said Haruki.	10
41	80	"I have been told the way," said Haruki, pointing.	10
41	91	"I will go first," said Haruki.	10
41	111	"We may still be questioned," said Haruki.	10
41	113	"I miss my garden," said Haruki.	10
42	1	What Occurred in the Slave Tent "I am sure that is the tent," said Haruki.	10
42	10	"You, Haruki, and myself, might be recognized".	10
42	42	While Haruki kept watch, Tajima and I kicked, loosened, and drew up several of the tent pegs or stakes, at the back of the tent, which would produce a sagging at that point.	10
42	45	When two Ashigaru came about the tent to investigate the local collapse of canvas they encountered Haruki, apparently bewildered, who called their attention to the loose ropes and sagging canvas, not that this situation really required his exposition.	10
42	46	I fear they might have been unkind to Haruki, but they had little opportunity to do so, as Tajima and I, armed with the tent pegs, or stakes, if you will, approaching from different sides, struck them, from behind, heavily.	10
42	48	Behind the tent, they encountered Haruki, seemingly bewildered, indicating the two mysteriously prone Ashigaru, whom our new arrivals, the other two Ashigaru, quickly joined.	10
42	55	We left Haruki to bind and gag the four Ashigaru and the officer, as it was not clear how long they would remain in their state of inert serenity.	10
42	83	"But how is it that these other three, your Cecily, and Pertinax's Jane, and the fair-haired slave, Saru, are here, as well?" "It is unlikely it is a coincidence," said Haruki.	10
42	90	"Interesting," said Haruki.	10
42	98	"Perhaps, then, that is why they have been kept together," said Haruki, "that they might be supervised and controlled, or, if one wished, disposed of without difficulty".	10
42	189	"It will now be heavily scrutinized," said Haruki.	10
42	343	"This is all well and good," said Haruki, "but we may all be dead within the Ahn".	10
42	374	"Four," said Haruki, looking at me closely, "seems a nice number".	10
43	15	"Haruki and I," I said, "drew a loaded rice wagon pasangs to the camp".	10
43	29	"What are you doing?" I asked Haruki.	10
43	33	"Cecily is right," I said to Haruki.	10
43	35	"Do not fear, noble one," said Haruki.	10
43	43	"I have my switch," said Haruki.	10
43	48	"Will there be enough tarns?" asked Haruki.	10
43	61	"See that you pull your weight," said Jane to Saru, "or I will call your laxity to the attention of Master Haruki and he will lay his switch on you, and well".	10
43	117	"Forward," said Haruki, slapping his switch on the side the wagon.	10
43	121	Again Haruki struck the side of the wagon, smartly, with the switch.	10
43	125	"Again, forward!" said Haruki.	10
43	128	"Forward!" said Haruki.	10
43	162	Occasionally Haruki's switch cracked against the side of the wagon.	10
43	184	"True," said Haruki.	10
43	203	"Tajima, Haruki, and I know him," I said.	10
45	1	Friends Converse on a Hilltop, A Distant Palace in View "You once said you had seen the iron dragon," I said to Haruki.	10
45	2	"In the sky, to the west of the palace," said Haruki.	10
45	10	"There is much to fear," said Haruki.	10
45	23	"It is terrible enough," said Haruki.	10
45	102	He and Haruki had been sitting with us, quiet, listening, on a hill, overlooking the palace of Yamada in the distance.	10
45	166	"There is the tunnel," said Haruki.	10
45	173	"Haruki," I said, "has scouted the local towns and markets".	10
45	193	"If he thought Yamada with the march," I said, "would he not merely have waited?" "This man of whom you speak, this Nodachi," said Haruki, "may have been mistaken".	10
45	209	Certainly Haruki, who has been about, inquiring unobtrusively, diligently, after strangers, after unfamiliar warriors, after any new, unknown master swordsman in local towns and villages, has little word on the matter".	10
45	212	"But Haruki has been inquiring after a master swordsman," said Tajima.	10
45	214	"If swords are sheathed," said Tajima, "how does one know a master swordsman?" "We furnished Haruki with a description," I said.	10
45	237	"I am sorry I have failed, noble ones," said Haruki.	10
45	242	"Nothing of interest to the noble ones," said Haruki.	10
45	246	"It is said, one bowl a day," said Haruki.	10
45	248	"It is said word of it has carried even to the palace," said Haruki.	10
45	250	"I know this only by hearsay," said Haruki.	10
45	252	"A grain of rice is placed on the forehead of a slave," said Haruki.	10
45	255	"Then," said Haruki, "his head is forfeit".	10
45	257	"I have heard so," said Haruki.	10
46	10	Tajima, Pertinax, Haruki, and I were in the crowd, hopefully inconspicuously so.	10
46	11	Tajima and Haruki were clearly Pani, and would be likely to evoke little attention or comment.	10
46	293	"This," I said, "is our friend, Haruki".	10
46	294	"Forgive me, noble one," said Haruki.	10
46	299	"Tal," said Haruki.	10
46	462	"And then, in the end," said Haruki, who had long been silent, "men die, and villages are burned".	10
47	58	No sooner than Nodachi, Pertinax, Tajima, Haruki, and I had been admitted through the great portal we had been set upon by dozens of waiting Ashigaru, purportedly placed to lead us into the presence of Lord Yamada.	10
47	120	Lord Yamada then turned to Haruki.	10
47	142	Some pasangs from the palace, in a deep draw, Ichiro had concealed four tarns, his, and three others, those with which Pertinax, Tajima, and I, Haruki behind the saddle of Tajima, had flown south.	10
47	158	Tajima, Pertinax, Haruki, and I were bound, our arms tied behind us.	10
47	329	"No, noble one," called Haruki.	10
48	32	It had come as a surprise that Haruki was allowed the freedom of the garden.	10
48	40	I did gather that Haruki was still about.	10
48	41	I would not have been surprised, of course, that the secret entrance might still exist and Haruki might still be about.	10
49	122	I did not know where Nodachi might be encelled, or where Haruki might be housed, but I knew, from the afternoon, when we were to be fetched together to the tea of Lord Yamada, the incarceration chambers of both Tajima and Pertinax.	10
55	21	"We will attempt to locate Nodachi and Haruki," I said, "and then attempt to make contact with Ichiro, and the tarns, and then take flight north".	10
55	33	"Let us search for Nodachi, and Haruki," I said.	10
56	8	Might there not be scraps of food in such a place, even scrapings from the sides of garbage bins? Might not such locations then be frequented by such an individual, or individuals, trying to survive like urts in the collapse of a society or civilization? I had located it and other such facilities in...	10
58	249	"We have not found Haruki," I said.	10
60	18	Haruki, who had been working in the garden, stood in the background.	10
60	55	I supposed it had profited from Haruki's return.	10
60	101	"The mark, the sign of the lotus, on the left shoulder!" cried Haruki, wildly, tears in his eyes.	10
60	106	"Yes," said Haruki.	10
60	110	"Yes!" cried Haruki.	10
60	112	"He," said Lord Yamada, "this short, gross, squat, malformed beast?" "He is your son," said Haruki.	10
60	115	"He is the avenger!" cried Haruki.	10
60	118	"He has come back, noble lord!" said Haruki.	10
60	124	"Thrust, now, to the heart!" "Kill him!" said Haruki.	10
60	125	"But he cares for the garden," I said to Haruki.	10
60	131	Haruki wildly rushed upon the shaken, inert shogun, and tore down his robe to the waist.	10
60	133	Then Haruki turned about, to face Nodachi.	10
60	138	"Kill him!" said Haruki.	10
60	159	"It was I," said Haruki, "who admitted the assailant into the garden, by a secret way".	10
60	161	"And you permitted me to remain with the garden?" said Haruki.	10
60	163	"The straw jacket?" said Haruki.	10
60	166	"Many are content with oppression," said Haruki.	10
60	168	"No," said Haruki.	10
60	170	"Can it be?" asked Haruki.	10
60	174	"The choice, dear Haruki, gardener san," said Lord Yamada, "is always, and only, one amongst masks and tyrants, he who wears the mask and he who disdains doing so".	10
60	175	"And the great and noble lord disdains doing so," said Haruki.	10
60	262	"Where is Haruki?" I asked.	10
60	325	I had seen the motion, the preparation before, the grace and power of that movement, long ago in the garden, when Lord Akio, forgoing a living target at my behest, as I was a guest of the shogun, had demonstrated the effectiveness of the war fan on a young tree, close by the side of the gardener, Ha...	10
60	328	One of Lord Akio's men raised his sword to strike Haruki, who stood there, a long, four-pronged garden fork, used for turning soil, bloody to the socket, in his hands, but the blow failed to fall, and the bearer of the lifted sword spun away, his blade lost, he grasping at a long Pani arrow in his t...	10
60	350	"Approach!" Haruki, the long fork still in hand, in two hands, approached Lord Yamada.	10
60	354	"No," said Haruki.	10
60	356	"Lord Akio," said Haruki, "did injury in this place".	10
60	358	"He succeeded only too well," said Haruki.	10
60	360	"His victim does not," said Haruki.	10
60	362	"The victim of his cruel and needless crime," said Haruki.	10
60	366	"I have avenged it," said Haruki.	10
60	368	"The occasion, if not welcome, was opportune," said Haruki.	10
60	370	"What will you accept, in lieu of my life, that your head be spared?" "I return your life," said Haruki.	10
60	373	"What will you have, a golden chain, ten flocks of verr, ten herds of tarsk, a house, a dozen slaves?" "I would that I might be permitted to tend your garden," said Haruki.	10
60	422	"Some men cannot live without a tyrant," said Haruki, "either to obey, or defy".	10
61	127	Haruki, not required in our perilous ruse, that of peasants and feigned readiness for war, had made his way to Ichiro's hiding place, which, happily, had not been discovered in the long interval between our early visit to the market village to investigate stories of a mountebank, a master of sword t...	10
61	129	With him, of course, came Haruki, and Aiko, bound, belly up, wrists back and down, ankles over and down, over the saddle apron of Ichiro.	10
61	182	Surely, in his long concealment with the tarns, waiting for Tajima, Pertinax, Haruki, and myself to return, he would have had an opportunity to form some interest in Aiko's lovely and delicate lineaments.	10
61	419	It may be recalled that Haruki had ventured to the hiding place of Ichiro and the tarns, where Aiko was in attendance, and that they had then returned, by tarn, to the grounds of the palace.	10
61	423	So Aiko found herself on the palace grounds, brought by Ichiro and Haruki, while Lord Yamada, Nodachi, I, and some others, and the many peasants of Arashi, advanced to meet, and discomfit, the forces of Temmu on the north road.	10
61	437	Ichiro, too, of course, as the matter had been concealed, did not know her as unclaimed, but also thought she must belong to Haruki.	10
61	439	As matters turned out, both Lord Yamada and Ichiro approached Haruki.	10
61	445	"But," said Haruki, "who then will tend your garden?" "Very well," said Lord Yamada, "I will offer you a golden chain.	10
61	447	"Perhaps," said Haruki to Lord Yamada, "I will sell her to this young man, for his fine handful of copper".	10
61	449	"Forgive me!" "But perhaps," said Haruki, "she is not for sale".	10
61	451	"And I will give you a dozen slaves to help you in the garden!" "But, great lord," said Haruki.	10
61	454	Haruki looked down at Aiko, who was kneeling, as she was a slave in the presence of free persons.	10
61	455	"I claim you!" said Haruki to Aiko.	10
61	459	"Rise up," said Haruki to Aiko.	10
61	463	"Not at all," said Haruki.	10
61	498	"No, great shogun," said Haruki.	10
61	502	"They are doing nicely," said Haruki.	10
61	1294	Haruki would be tending his garden.	10