For my part I return to Amada to make sure that Pharaoh does his share and at the right time.
For mark, unless all this is carried through to-night Amada will fall to-morrow, a certain priestess will die, and you, Bes, and your soldiers will never look on Ethiopia again.

Is it agreed ?" I nodded who did not wish to waste time in words, and Bes rolled his eyes and answered, "When one can think of nothing, it is best to follow the counsel of those who can think of something; also to hunt rather than to be hunted.
Especially is this so if that something comes from the holy Tanofir or his broken Cup.

Generals, you have heard.

Rouse the host and bid them stand to their arms company by company!" The generals leapt away into the darkness like arrows from a bow, and presently we heard the noise of gathering men.
"Where are these guides of yours, holy Tanofir ?" asked Bes.
Tanofir beckoned over his shoulder, and out of the gloom, one by one, four men stole into the tent.

They were strange, quiet men, but I can say no more of them since their faces were veiled, nor as it chances, did I ever see any of them after the battle, in which I suppose that they were killed.