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At two in the morning, at Bashti's command, the shell of the boat was fired. And Jerry, thirsting for water, having whimpered and wailed himself to exhaustion, lying helpless, leg-tied, on his side, saw the floating world he had known so short a time go up in flame and smoke. And by the light of her burning, old Bashti apportioned the loot. No one of the tribe was too mean to receive nothing.
He would see first, therefore, what was doing outside the scullery, and then make a round of doors and windows! Right under him when he looked out, stood a short, burly figure; another man was taking intermittent hauls at the arms of their leg-tied companion, regardless of his stifled cries of pain when he did so.
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