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Tearing off soether into a ball as big as his fist Around this ball he twisted the metal strip, so that it for-lass stopper out of the alcohol bottle, and with the fluid saturated the rags Then, on a clear bit of the floor, he spilled out a setting fire by friction all hollow," he cheerfully reuess it's only in books a white man ever succeeds at it But this way you see, it's simplicity itself"

Very e of the door, sufficed to set the phosphorus ablaze Stern heaped on a few tiny lu as the acrid fumes arose from the sputter of blue flame, he applied the alcohol-soaked torch

Instantly a puff of fire shot up, colorless and clear, throwing no very satisfactory light, yet capable of dispelling the thickest of the gloo-bearded and dusty, as he bent over this crucial experie new thrill of confidence and solace Soineer's resourcefulness cah the whole orld had crumbled into ruin, yet he would find a way to se for her

But Stern had no time for any but matters of intensest practicality Fro the flambeau in one hand, the bottle of alcohol in the other

"Coht her way, "You're still deterlea out of the roo the wrecked hall, they started on their trip of exploration out into the unknown