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The arrow, with its shrill whistle, sped upward, farther and farther. My men were instructed to hold their fire until the sound lessened, stopped at the height of its missile's long arc, and then began again, shrill again, in its plummeting descent. I counted, successfully as it happened, on two things. First, the column would not understand the likely meaning of the arrow, and, accordingly, would not come to arms at its first note, and, second, the men of the column, detecting the arrow, would be likely, in fascination, to follow it in its flight, however apprehensively. That being that case, their heads lifted and their attention directed upward, they should constitute easy, close, stationary targets for the first volley of arrows from my men, rising from the grass and firing. Well before the signal arrow had begun its descent, Thurnock had set a fresh arrow to his string and no sooner had the missile begun its descent than one of the corsairs, one in a crested helmet, knelt in the road, perhaps unclear as to what had occurred, and then collapsed. Then another corsair spun about, turned by the blow of an arrow. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter )