'He who violates the salt shall surely taste Jahannum!'" "Death shall have me, first!" cried Rrisa, and fell silent.

And for a while the three men crouched in the wady with the two unconscious ones, torturer and victim.

At length the Master spoke: "This won't do, Lieutenant.

We must be getting back." Leclair peered at him in the screaming dark.
"Why, my Captain ?" asked he.

"The Legionaries can care for themselves.
If _Nissr_ is breaking up, in the gale, we can do nothing.