"How many? And where?" Selkirk held up a hand to stop the Reivers.
"Thousands, Major and they"re in a wadi."
"Show me," Selkirk ordered. He looked up as Crosier rode up. "Look after the men, Sergeant. There are Turks ahead."
The moon threw long shadows as Black led Selkirk across a plateau of cracked rock. The sound of horses carried to Selkirk, with the drift of smoke and an occasional murmur of laughter. Without talking, Black dismounted and tied his horse to a slender outcrop of rock. Selkirk followed, and they dropped to all fours and crawled up a ridge that overlooked one of the many wadis that seared the area. Black indicated that Jack should look over.
Even with the aid of binoculars, moon-shadows prevented Selkirk from seeing more than a fraction of the wadi, but what he saw wa
