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The boar turned again, marked the prostrate man, and with a savage gleam in its little eyes charged the Maharajah, its gleaming ivory tusks, six inches long, as sharp and deadly as an Afridi's knife. But at that moment a shout made the boar hesitate, and Raymond dashed in on it at racing speed, driving his spear so deeply into its side that, as he swept on, the tough bamboo broke like match-wood.
Then, with a suddenness that gave no time for thought, there was a crash like crackling match-wood a rush of water that seemed to crush all within its embrace. Next moment the two men were struggling in the stream. At that crisis, Arnold's first thought was for his friend just as it had always been since he fought his chum's first battles at school.
All this time the room was filling, as the party meeting ended and the members of the Executive Committee came in to take their places. I was asking Litvinov whether he was going to speak, when a little hairy energetic man came up and with great delight showed us the new matches invented in the Soviet laboratories. Russia is short of match-wood, and without paraffin.
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