1 For they had forgotten about matches.
2 In my trouser pocket were still some loose matches.
3 I struck none of my matches because I had no hand free.
4 The matches were of that abominable kind that light only on the box.
5 But they were interested by my matches, and I struck some to amuse them.
6 And at last, in one of the really air-tight cases, I found a box of matches.
7 I lit a match and went on past the dusty curtains, of which I have told you.
8 I had my crowbar in one hand, and the other hand played with the matches in my pocket.
9 I felt the box of matches in my hand being gently disengaged, and other hands behind me plucking at my clothing.
10 Yet it was evident that if I was to flourish matches with my hands I should have to abandon my firewood; so, rather reluctantly, I put it down.
11 In manoeuvring with my matches and Weena, I had turned myself about several times, and now I had not the faintest idea in what direction lay my path.
12 Abruptly, I dashed down the match, and, knocking one of the people over in my course, went blundering across the big dining-hall again, out under the moonlight.
13 Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a most strange, as for me it was a most fortunate thing.
14 I was afraid to push my way in among all this machinery in the dark, and it was only with my last glimpse of light I discovered that my store of matches had run low.
15 I have no doubt they found my second appearance strange enough, coming suddenly out of the quiet darkness with inarticulate noises and the splutter and flare of a match.
16 Starting up in the darkness I snatched at my matches and, hastily striking one, I saw three stooping white creatures similar to the one I had seen above ground in the ruin, hastily retreating before the light.
17 If we could get through it to the bare hill-side, there, as it seemed to me, was an altogether safer resting-place; I thought that with my matches and my camphor I could contrive to keep my path illuminated through the woods.
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