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Millard saw the importance of letting Masters know about this new move, and feared that Meadows would attempt to put him under bonds of secrecy. So, as he rose to go, like a prairie traveler protecting himself by back-firing, he said: "If you're really serious in this matter, Mr. Meadows, I suppose you'll take pains not to have it generally known.
She had not felt inclined to walk down the white path under the blazing sun to the glaring beach, but it was another matter to spin along the high road till, as the fairy tales put it, her hair whistled in the wind. Egbert was anxious to set off, so Hereward took his place on the luggage-carrier, and, after some back-firing, the three started forth.
"We'll make a trip over the whole line," declared Charley, "and be sure it's safe. Then we'll stop back-firing and beat out the flames again. It's the only sure way I can think of." He drew his axe and cut fresh boughs. Then they went back along their line. In one place flames had already leaped across, but they fell on them vigorously with their bushes and soon put them out.
"Something out on the Drive, I think," said Jimmy. "A car back-firing, I fancy, Skinner." "Very probably, sir." He followed Ann to the stairs. As he started to mount them, a faint whisper reached his ears. "'At-a-boy!" It was Mr. Crocker's way of bestowing a father's blessing. Ann walked into the drawing-room, her head high, triumph in the glance which she cast upon her unconscious aunt.
She knew the difference between the sound of a blow-out and the back-firing of an irritated engine. But some abysmal instinct made her suddenly cautious, though with that same instinct her inner panic developed. What had she heard? "I put on a 'spare, anyway," Burke was saying. "The rear right looked a little weak, so I changed it."
Many are overtaken in the mad flight and perish. The fierce fires of this type can be stopped only by heavy rain, a change of wind, or by barriers which provide no fuel and thus choke out the flames. Large fires are sometimes controlled by back-firing. A back-fire is a second fire built and so directed as to run against the wind and toward the main fire.
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