After that they saw a scarlet flush under the horizon which was not a part of the night and its progress.

The Panther noted it, and his great face darkened.

He turned to Ned.
"You see it, don't you?
Now tell me what it is." "That light, I should say, comes from the fires of an army.

And it can be no other army than that of Cos." "Right again, ain't he, Obed ?" "He surely is.

Cos and his men are there.