you would have been angry , just like you are now . i managed to peel off a splinter a couple of inches long and tucked it in my palm . he desperately looked around , unable to make out the shapes that lay still on the ground . *** dad got back about twenty minutes later . `` it would seem that some very useful information has , just today , come into light from that fellow who was captured . a primitive heat seared through him , drawing him forward . 