He had come back--alone.
Terror seized her, keen and clarifying terror.

She screamed, again and again, called aloud the only name that came to her mind.
"_Sim_!" she cried aloud again and again--"_Sim_! _Sim_!" [1] Wheat clocks: Phosphorus bombs left in wheat or haystacks and fired by the sun.
[2] Clothes: Argot terms for phosphorus, cyanide and other chemicals used in destruction of property or life..