Fire Spirit
“that it looked like the end of the world, and as though they would never see the sun again. A furious gale was blowing from the south-west, and rain was sweeping across the road and flooding the gutters. The basswood tree was thrashing its branches as if it had gone berserk and was trying to uproot itself.
Ruth had arranged to take two hours off so that she could take Amelia to see Doctor Feldstein. Before she left the house, however, she called Jack to find out how his tests on Tilda Frieburg’...s bathtub were progressing.
‘Pretty good,’ he told her. ‘I’ve started to analyze the sludge we found at the bottom of the bath, and I should know what its principal constituents are in a couple of hours. And by the way, the shower curtains are telling me a very contradictory story. If that fire was intense enough to boil away that bathwater and cremate that unfortunate young lady, it should have melted the curtains completely.’ ‘I thought that, too. Do you have any theories about that?’ ‘I can only guess that the seat of the fire was highly concentrated, and that there was very little radiant heat outside of the bathtub itself.MoreLess
Ruth had arranged to take two hours off so that she could take Amelia to see Doctor Feldstein. Before she left the house, however, she called Jack to find out how his tests on Tilda Frieburg’...s bathtub were progressing.
‘Pretty good,’ he told her. ‘I’ve started to analyze the sludge we found at the bottom of the bath, and I should know what its principal constituents are in a couple of hours. And by the way, the shower curtains are telling me a very contradictory story. If that fire was intense enough to boil away that bathwater and cremate that unfortunate young lady, it should have melted the curtains completely.’ ‘I thought that, too. Do you have any theories about that?’ ‘I can only guess that the seat of the fire was highly concentrated, and that there was very little radiant heat outside of the bathtub itself.MoreLess
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