Spellbound, Anthony watched the cloaked figure of The Shadow glide to the fireplace, where a ruddy flame burned over the ashes of some half-consumed logs.

Some of the Martian buildings, however had been fired by heat-rays; and a pall of black smoke was rising and mushrooming above the ruddy flames.

A wave of ruddy flame swept The Shadow like a spreading sheet, but he escaped the fury of that passing lick.

From across the balcony rail, he saw a tiny spurt of ruddy flame in the darkness where Ducky's table was located.

And Ghend walked among the people, whispering, whispering, and his eyes burned the ruddy flame of copper.

It seemed as if the surly old tree and the gracious sunset had some secret between them, which, as often as they met, broke out in ruddy flame.

"Who is he, Master, that writhes, quivering more than the others his consorts," said I, "and whom a ruddier flame is sucking?"

"There goes another one," said Jorian as ruddy flames enveloped a ship.

Flick, and a ruddy flame wiped out a corner of a beach.

A heap of timber glowed in the fireplace and shot forth ruddy flames.