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down the rocky incline. With a laugh, Jan threw his own after it. "I want to tear you with my hands ! " he cried, working his hand, inch by inch, toward 0 'Garry's throat.
But the men knew each other's strength and weaknesses from their former experience, and battled with their minds as well as with their hands. Jan was suddenly thrown flat on his back, and both of 0 'Garry's hands clutched his throat before he could adjust himself to his awk
locked in each other's arms. The renewed battle was carried on cautiously, each playing for strength and waiting for an opening. First one was uppermost, then the other.
They had forgotten the forest fire, until a sudden blast of wind swept in their direction, bringing with it a cloud of fine ashes and a suggestion of heat. And they could hear a welldefined roar that told them what to expect. Both men paused, as if by common consent, and, retaining their
A DOUBLE STRUGGLE
ward position. In a second, the man's breath was cut off. One of 0 'Garry's great hands lay partly over Jan's mouth, to aid in the process of strangulation; but, in that moment of desperation, it was seized between the desperate man's teeth and bitten until the small bones cracked. 0 'Garry gave a cry of rage and pain, and lifted the other hand to deal Jan a blow. This afforded the necessary relaxation, and Jan took a deep, choking breath, and seized his adversary's hands at the wrists. In another moment they were rolling down the steep incline,
grip, waited. They lay in a sort of dell, about two hundred feet in width, shaded only by a few saplings and interspersed by several trickling pools of running water. Soon sparks began to fall about them. A few minutes later, a half-dozen points in the leaf -strewn carpet were jetting flames. Then the holocaust from overhead swept the surrounding forest.
The men's eyes had taken on a wild look, that showed all reason was lost in the mad desire for revenge. Jan had burst out into hoarse laughing as the flames began to lick the leaves from the trees and the heat