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Around it the Warhoons had piled building stone from some of the ruined edifices of the ancient city to prevent the animals and the captives from escaping into the audience, and at each end had been constructed cages to hold them until their turns came to meet some horrible death upon the arena.
There were some who accused him of lukewarmness in his adopted religion, and others who put it down to greed of wealth and reluctance to incur expense.
"Why it's just the custom," his father had replied--the answer always given when Bamboo asked a question, "just the custom."
"You ought to have known it," said she; "but children, unfortunately, never know what is best for them.
