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"I didn't appreciate what I was doing, or I wouldn't have blown up with a report like a nitroglycerine storehouse. Will you excuse me?" Helen looked squarely at him. "Yes I will," she said, "on one condition." "And what is that?" "That you blow up again. I would really like to see it just as you do, and that is much the best way carry me along with you."
Carter's was always bare and orderly, cleared for action, like the deck of a battle-ship, and over it many engagements had been fought, for the man behind it never shirked a conflict. His was a vigorous and irascible temperament, compounded of old-fashioned, slow-burning black powder and nitroglycerine a combination of incalculable destructive power.
"Do you remember the thick stuff that Dr. Thornton showed us in IV. Chemistry the other day?" "Great Scott!" breathed Dave Darrin, anxiously. "You don't mean nitroglycerine?" "But I do!" Dick nodded, energetically. "Wow! Don't stir from here. I'll call the night manager." Night Manager Drowan came over at once, eyeing the box and the tiny pool of thick stuff.
Do you want Dan kept here?" "For God's sake, yes." "Suppose the posse gets him here?" "We musn't dodge the law." They were gauging their voices with the closest precision. Talking like this so close to Barry was like dancing among flasks of nitroglycerine.
"Nitroglycerine," explained Watkins, who had once been a miner. "Oh, sure!" agreed Buck, sarcastically. "And where'd we get it?" "I always carry a little with me just for emergencies," asserted Brower, calmly, and patted his black bag. There was a sudden and unanimous edging away. "For the love of Pete!" I cried. "Was there some of that stuff in there all the time I've been carrying it around?"
Why did n't the baroness go back to England, if she was so tired of Switzerland? Well, she was too infirm now; and, besides, she did n't like to trust herself on the railroads. And there were so many new inventions nowadays, of which she read. What was this nitroglycerine, that exploded so dreadfully? No: she thought she should stay where she was.
It was lucky I winded the cops on that last job, or I'd have had to leave them. As it was, I just had time to grab them up before I hit the trail for the skyline. They don't need anything but a little rubbing a saint's elbow must be a snug berth. I wish I had some juice, though." "Juice?" "Nitroglycerine," very gently, as to a child.
Great advancement has been made in the past few years in the nature and composition of explosives as well as in the form of motive power employed in blasting. Powerful chemical compositions, such as nitroglycerine and its compounds, such as dynamite, etc., have supplanted gunpowder, and electricity, is now almost invariably the firing agent.
The other company which was absent was to join the headquarters, the evening before the attempt; and it was hoped that the three companies would be able to keep the enemy at bay for half an hour, so as to give time to the party with the nitroglycerine to take it to the required position, and rejoin their comrades.
Wait! We'll be right down to your office." Nor did it take Len Spencer long to realize that he had in hand the big news sensation of the hour for the people of Gridley. Everyone in Gridley either wondered or shivered the next morning at breakfast table. Four pounds of nitroglycerine are enough to work fearful havoc and mischief.
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