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We looked at one another.
"Thou seest," I said, "they have taken away the door. Is there aught with which we may fill the place? Speak quickly for they will be on us ere the daylight. " I spoke thus, because I knew that we must hold this place or none, as there were no inner doors in the palace, the rooms being separated one from another by curtains. I also knew that if we could by any means defend this doorway the murderers could get in nowhere else; for the palace is absolutely impregnable, that is, since the secret door by which Sorais had entered on that memorable night of attempted murder had, by Nyleptha's order, been closed up with masonry.