For a considerable distance to our rear the sands were covered by fleeing men. Most were the unfortunate levies, but a few bodies held a loose cohesion that told they had once been regiments of fighting men, now huddling together for safety in adversity. We rode on, shouldering aside fugitives. By Krun! The more I looked the more it seemed the whole army was turning tail.
But Nedfar held the center and right. From the eminence crowned by its ruins he could see the course of the battle better than could I, and it was at this time that, observing his left and center were about to be secure, he flung in everything he had on his right. Also, it was at this time, in the small cleared space between Nedfar and the onrushing Shanks, that his massed archers wreaked such horrible confusion upon the
