It was obvious that Thorn, unlike my old enemy Pa-Kur, who presumably had perished at the siege of Ar, was not a man above sensual vices, not a man who could with fanatical purity and single-minded devotion sacrifice himself and entire peoples to the ends of his ambition and power.

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“I can help you obtain not only a tarn,” said the man, “but a thousand golden tarn disks and provisions for as lengthy a journey as you might wish.”

“I am not an assassin,” I said.

“Ah!” said the man.

Since the siege of Ar, when Pa-Kur, Master Assassin, had violated the limits of his caste and had presumed, in contradiction to the traditions of Gor, to lead a horde upon the city, intending to make himself Ubar, the Caste of Assassins had lived as hated, hunted men, no longer the esteemed mercenaries whose services were sought by cities and, as often by factions within cities. Now many assassins roamed Gor, fearing to wear the sombre black tunic of their caste, disguised as members of other castes, not infrequently as warriors.

“I am not an assassin,” I repeated.

“Of course not,” said the man. “The Caste of Assassins no longer exists.”

“I doubt that.”

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I had been taken for an assassin, or an outlaw, been assessed as a likely instrument for the furtherance of the foul schemes of one of Tharna’s dissatisfied factions.

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“Thus,” said Thorn, “to make it seem he had not given the money to this warrior, or assassin as the case may be, he pretended it had been stolen from him.”

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It recalled the Tarn cots of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, the Compound of Mintar in Pa-Kur’s City of Tents on the vosk.

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