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Updated: May 10, 2025
I mean that the intelligent force behind these manifestations has realised that some one is busied about its destruction. And it is now on the defensive: more, it is aggressive." "But 'it' what is 'it'?" began the soldier, fuming. "What, in the name of all that's dreadful, is a fire-elemental?" "I cannot give you at this moment," replied Dr.
"You think that my brother !" broke in the Colonel, aghast. "Has nothing whatever to do with it directly. The fire-elemental that has here been tormenting you and your household was sent upon its mission long before you, or your family, or your ancestors, or even the nation you belong to unless I am much mistaken was even in existence.
"Precisely what I expected," the doctor said calmly; "a fire-elemental sent upon its mission in the days of Thebes, centuries before Christ, and tonight, for the first time all these thousands of years, released from the spell that originally bound it." We stared at him in amazement, Colonel Wragge opening his lips for words that refused to shape themselves.
"Why does it come from that plantation? And why should it attack us, or any one in particular?" Questions began to pour from him in a stream. "All in good time," the doctor answered quietly, having let him run on for several minutes. "But I must first discover positively what, or who, it is that directs this particular fire-elemental.
He glanced down at the charred cauldron-lids, and traced a figure in the air with his finger. But I was too excited, or too mortified, or still too dazed, perhaps, to see what it was he outlined, or what it was he meant to convey. I could only go on staring and shaking my puzzled head. "A fire-elemental," he cried, "a fire-elemental of the most powerful and malignant kind "
"A what?" thundered the voice of Colonel Wragge behind us, having returned suddenly and overheard. "It's a fire-elemental," repeated Dr. Silence more calmly, but with a note of triumph in his voice he could not keep out, "and a fire-elemental enraged." The light began to dawn in my mind at last.
I do not mean," he added, noticing the uneasy fidgeting of his host, "that anything in our laundry-experiment need appear to terrify us, for this case seems a comparatively simple one, and it is only the vindictive character of the intelligence directing this fire-elemental that causes anxiety and makes for personal danger."
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