It means Jehannum, and an unhappy couch shall it be!" Rrisa's face grew even more drawn and lined.

A trembling had possessed his whole body.
"Master, I obey!" he made submission, then stood waiting with downcast eyes of suffering.
"It is well," said the chief, rising.

He stood for a moment peering at Rrisa, while the hum and roar of the great air-liner's mechanism, the dip and sway of its vast body through the upper air, seemed to add a kind of oppressive solemnity to the tense situation.

To the cabin wall the Master turned.

There hung a large-scale map of the Arabian Peninsula.