Parthian fighters though these Beni Harb were, they surely were well stocked with munitions and they meant stern business.
"And stern business is what they shall have, once the dark is complete," the Master pondered.

"It is annihilation for them or for us.

There can be no compromise, nor any terms but slaughter!" One circumstance was favorable--the falling of the wind.

Had it risen, kicking up a harsher surf, _Nissr_ must have begun to break.

But as the cupped hand of night, closing over the earth, had also shut away the wind, the air-liner was now resting more easily.