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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Yes, uncle; but what has that to do with the explosion?" "Everything, my boy. If there had been no powder there we should have had no explosion." "But it wasn't gunpowder, uncle," cried Tom, "it couldn't be. I know what gunpowder's made of nitre, brimstone, and charcoal; and besides, we had no light."
And where were the second one's thoughts? also in foreign lands, in the gunpowder's smoke, amongst the glitter of arms and cannons, with him, the friend of her childhood, fighting for imperial power, against the Hungarian people. Will he return joyful and unharmed return to Sweden's peaceful, well-constituted, happy land? The straws showed no square: a tear dwelt in the girl's eye.
So far, he didn't know enough to have an opinion, and said so, adding: "What I saw of the village in the screen from the car, it looked pretty primitive. Of course, gunpowder's one of those things a primitive people could discover by accident, if the ingredients were available." "We won't take any chances, then." "You think they're hostile? I was hoping they were coming out to parley with us."
"I'll talk, then, and you listen, Master Mark," said the boy coolly; and Mark opened his eyes, and was about to order the lad off, but Dummy went on quickly. "I've been thinking it all over," he said. "That gunpowder's the thing. When we go next we'll take a lot in bags. When we get there, and they're hiding in that narrow bit, I'll untie the bags and throw two or three in.
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