JOURNEY'S END All this time, the strange, yellowish sheen against the heavens was increasing.

What might lie beyond the mountains--who could tell?
But that its nature was wholly different from anything any white man ever had beheld seemed obvious.
Quite suddenly, at 10:05, the Master's binoculars detected a break far to southward, in the craggy wall of rock.

He ordered _Nissr's_ beak turned directly thither.

Swiftly the Eagle of the Sky held her course, speeding like an arrow.

And now a vast, open plain was seen to be spreading away, away to indeterminable distances; a plain the further limits of which veiled themselves in bister and dull ocher vapors.
The aureate shimmer on the sky kept steadily increasing, from a point somewhat to the left of _Nissr's_ line of flight.