fire-encircled

Updated: June 5, 2025

One moment the forest would be light as a glare from the fire reached him, the next moment it would be all the darker for the contrast. For a mile he rode over the blackened and burned forest floor, some trees still ablaze and smoking. Every step he took, for all he knew, might be leading him on into a fire-encircled place from which he would have difficulty in escaping, but on he went.

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Then she told them what she knew, from the point where she had met Grant on the fire-encircled hill. "Two lucky people two lucky people," was all Transley's comment. Words could not have expressed the jealousy he felt. But Linder was not too shy to place his hand with a friendly pressure upon Grant's shoulder. "Good work," he said, and with two words sealed a friendship.

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