At the approach of night both armies retired to their camps.

The next day, at dawn, the Franks moved out of theirs, to renew the engagement.

In front of them was no stir, no noise, no Arabs out of their tents and reassembling in their ranks.

Some Franks were sent to reconnoitre, entered the enemy's camp, and penetrated into their tents; but they were deserted.

"The Arabs had decamped silently in the night, leaving the bulk of their booty, and by this precipitate retreat acknowledging a more severe defeat than they had really sustained in the fight." [Illustration: "The Arabs had decamped silently in the night."-- --195] Foreseeing the effect which would be produced by their reverse in the country they had but lately traversed as conquerors, they halted nowhere, but hastened to reenter Septimania and their stronghold Narbonne, where they might await reenforcements from Spain.