El Barr is probably the secret name that Rrisa would not divulge.] The gigantic executioner--the strangler--named Sa'ad, seized Abd el Rahman by the right arm.

Musa, his tar-hued companion, gripped him by the left.

Never a word uttered the Apostate as he was led away through the horsemen.

But he gave one backward look, piercing and strange, at the Master who had thus delivered him to death--a look that, for all the White Sheik's aplomb, strangely oppressed him.
Then the horsemen closed about the two Maghrabi, or East Africans, and about their victim.

Abd el Rahman, the Great Apostate, as a living man, had forever passed from the sight of the Flying Legion.
His departure, in so abrupt and deadly simple a manner, gave the Master some highly conflicting thoughts.