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`` You slipped up on your count . '' `` It does n't make any real difference , '' Smithy said . But Rawson went on : `` We left the inner world on the nineteenth . At noon on the twentieth Gor was to cut loose the flame-throwers , melt a hole in the floor of the ocean . But it did n't work . I had hoped I could wipe out the mole-men , turn a solid stream of water down a shaft for over six hundred miles . It would have gone through the Zone of Fire , come flooding up into the mole-men world and spread out all over down deep where it 's hot .