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It seemed a not inopportune time for Baram to commit his forces. - (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter 23, Sentence #164)

Suleiman, with his immediate retinue, was with them, doubtless expostulating. I saw motion among the ranks of the Kavars and their vassal tribes. I heard the drums change their beat; I saw the lines of riders ordering themselves; I saw pennons, the pennons of preparation, lifted; I assumed that when they lowered the pennons of the charge would be lifted on their lances, and then that the lances would drop, and with them the lance of every rider in the Kavar host and that, drums rolling, the lines would then, in sweeping, almost regular parallels, charge. It seemed a not inopportune time for Baram to commit his forces. Thanks to the Tajuks, Suleiman was not in the center, and thanks, too, to them, the Aretai left flank, instead of being ready for action, swarmed and broiled like the crowds in a bazaar. I saw Baram, vizier to Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars, extend his arm before his body, and then lift it. I saw the pennons of the charge, with his arm, raised. - (Tribesmen of Gor)