She turned a coppery hue, then that portion of her surface which was unobscured as yet grew grey and ashen, and at length, as totality approached, her mountains and her plains were to be seen glowing luridly through a crimson gloom.
On, yet on, crept the ring of darkness; it was now more than half across the blood-red orb.

The air grew thick, and still more deeply tinged with dusky crimson.

On, yet on, till we could scarcely see the fierce faces of the group before us.

No sound rose now from the spectators, and at last Good stopped swearing.
"The moon is dying--the white wizards have killed the moon," yelled the prince Scragga at last.

"We shall all perish in the dark," and animated by fear or fury, or by both, he lifted his spear and drove it with all his force at Sir Henry's breast.