As I looked I saw behind them a massive figure I seemed to recognize.
Stumm had come to see the destruction of his enemies.
To the east I saw another gun in the fields just below the main road.
They had got us on both sides, and there was no way of escape.

Hilda von Einem was to have a noble pyre and goodly company for the dark journey.
Dusk was falling now, a clear bright dusk where the stars pricked through a sheen of amethyst.

The artillery were busy all around the horizon, and towards the pass on the other road, where Fort Palantuken stood, there was the dust and smoke of a furious bombardment.

It seemed to me, too, that the guns on the other fronts had come nearer.

Deve Boyun was hidden by a spur of hill, but up in the north, white clouds, like the streamers of evening, were hanging over the Euphrates glen.
The whole firmament hummed and twanged like a taut string that has been struck ...
As I looked, the gun to the west fired--the gun where Stumm was.