Even the wounded men helped, holding or passing tools.

The Master labored with the rest, grimy, sweating, hard-jawed; and "Captain Alden" did her bit without a moment's slackening.

Save for Abd el Rahman, now securely locked without any means of self-destruction in a stateroom, no man idled.
Anxiety dogged their every moment.

Sudden storm might yet hopelessly break up the stranded air-liner.

Other tribes might have seen the signal-fire and might descend upon the Legionaries.