And if they do, then will they be strong enough, too, to destroy us all.

For if they take the abode they banish from the Dweller all fear and sound the end of the Three.
"Then will the Shining One be all free indeed; free to go out into the world, free to do there as it wills! "But if they do not conquer--and the Shining One comes not to their aid, abandoning them even as it abandoned its own _Taithu_--then will the Three be loosed from a part of their doom, and they will go through the Portal, seek the Shining One beyond the Veil, and, piercing it through fear's opening, destroy it." "That's quite clear," murmured the O'Keefe in my ear.

"Weaken the morale--then smash.

I've seen it happen a dozen times in Europe.

While they've got their nerve there's not a thing you can do; get their nerve--and not a thing can they do.