The bodies quivered.

Calmly the _imams_, with reddened hands, now cut wings and legs from the bodies.
They laid these dead fragments on the blood-stained cloths in front of them.
"Let every Frank behold!" exclaimed the Olema.

The Legionaries drew near.

The _imams_ gathered up the fragments in the cloths.
"Now," said the Master, "thine _imams_ will toss these cloths in the air, and three whole birds will fly away.

The cloths will fall to earth, white as snow.