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Rujub, the Juggler

CHAPTER XV
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That is about it.

Now, are you all ready, Major ?" "All ready!" replied the Major.
The Doctor placed the end of his lighted cheroot against the touch paper, there was a momentary pause, then a rushing sound, and the rocket soared high in the air, and then burst, throwing out four or five white fireballs, which lit up clearly the spot they were watching.
"There they are!" the Major exclaimed; "just to the right of the bungalow; there are scores of them." The rifles, both from the terrace and the platforms below, cracked out in rapid succession, and another rocket flew up into the air and burst.
Before its light had faded out, each of the defenders had fired his four shots.

Shouts and cries from the direction in which they fired showed that many of the bullets had told, whilst almost immediately a sharp fire broke out from the bushes round them.
"Don't mind the fellows in the shrubs," the Major said, "but keep up your fire on the battery.

We know its exact position now, though we cannot actually make them out." "Let them wait while I go down and get a bit of phosphorus," the Doctor said.

"I have some in the surgery.


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