And surely it will be known that none had thinkings now, even in
idle speech, that any should have power to succour the Peoples of
the Lesser Redoubt. Neither, as I have said, had any the knowledge
of the place where it did stand.
And so was it made plain that those Peoples must suffer and come
unhelped and alone to their end; which was a sad and dreadful
thought to any. Yet had those within the Great Pyramid come already
to much sorrow and calamity because that some had made attempt in
this matter. And there had been for gain, only failure, and the
sorrow of Mothers, and the loneliness of Wives, and of kin. And now
this dread horror upon us, which concerned those lost Youths.
Now, as may be conceived, this sure knowledge that we
might give no succour to the People of the Lesse
