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They followed him to the cliff's edge, always with great respect for the
awful stuff he handled with such apparent carelessness. There was a
black sea-soaked rock jutting out above the waves; Selwyn pointed at it,
poised himself, and, with the long, overhand, straight throw of a
trained ball player, sent the grenade like a bullet at the rock.
There came a blinding flash, a stunning, clean-cut report--but what the
others took to be a vast column of black smoke was really a pillar of
dust--all that was left of the rock. And this slowly floated, settling
like mist over the waves, leaving nothing where the rock had been.
"I think," said Edgerton Lawn, wiping the starting perspiration from his
forehead, "that you have made good, Captain Selwyn. Dense or bulk, your
Chaosite and impact primer seem to do the business; and I think I may
say that the Lawn Nitro-Powder Company is ready to do business, too. Can
you come to town to-morrow? It's merely a matter of figures and
signatures now, if you say so.


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