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242 now within ten yards of me, and I had nothing with which to defend myself. He paused to prepare himself for his last deadly leap. He sprang—the Doctor's wire caught his legs, and that instant a deafening report, as if the whole world had burst asunder, shook the quadrangle to its foundations and the ill-starred Partigan, or whatever he was, was blown into a thousand fragments.