Chapter 38
A SECTOR of steel had penetrated the bed and ripped the skin of his arm, but this he did not know till afterwards. He had some difficulty in getting to the floor, for one of the bars of the bed had broken under the fearful impact of the explosion. When he did, he reached out his hand and tried to switch on the light, but that had gone. So had all the lights in the flat, he discovered, and at last he pulled open the maimed and splintered door, and came into the room where Dora was lying.
There was no light here, until Albert came, stumbling, with candles and matches, and then Jimmy went back to survey his room. Not a whole article of furniture in the room remained; not a pane of glass in the windows. Every square had been cut clean out as if by a knife, and the carpet in the ce
