She's like her father, and the old man often said: 'It's safe to deal with Keller's.

When you put up the money, we put up the goods.' But let's get the powder." Opening a box, he took out a stick of yellow material that looked rather like a thick candle.

A big copper cap was squeezed into one end, and from the cap there trailed a length of black fuse.

Festing put the stick into the hole and cautiously filled this up with frozen soil, leaving a short piece of fuse sticking out.

While he was feeling for his matches Kerr arrived.
"You are making trouble for me," the latter began.