Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-05-21
CHAPTER v.-toontinued.)

ar.sl opybodv know if everyone is out
of the bouse| a., ,.
folk all ran out the garden way as
I'm rs they heard the noise.
well the engine must come at once
~ eIl the property will be destroyed
HUGH then returned to his guardlan
s;je STOPPING over him in conjunction
Min the doctor, anxious to discover what
his condition was A. .5n
IFS a nasty injury this on The head,
sai,l the man OF medicine, ana tHlliA
tbera Is dislocation OF the shoulder;
lint | should imagine that the greatest
lancer will be from shock.
A9 he spoke there was a Pickering OF
fine patients lids, and MS eyes slowly
onepid The first face Mr.. Beale saw
Was that OF his ward
,IIueh." he said, with an effort, Il am
DYING; take care of Hester"
~ will. sir. Whore is she? Shall l
bring her to you?''
..Sbe is-she is-his eyes wandered a
u++la and his voice began to fade away,
tben with a sudden fresh spasm of en-
rrgy. he finished his sentence locked
in her room over the office"
My God"
Like an arrow from a bow Hugh sped
hack to the house door; volumes of
snake we're beginning to pour out of it
now and from the broken window. lie
fried to enter, but was dragged back by
a hundred eager hands.
Don't 90. sir. Don't go in; here comes
the cngine!"
Here it came indeed, laundering mp
the street, and in the twinkling of an
eve the men had dismounted and were
beginning to pour water from the hose
upon the burning building.
The erv had gone round that there was
n woman inside, and the fremen pre-
pared to put the fire escape against the
windows.
is her room in the back or front: -
one of them asked. and Hugh, wrcnching
himself free from. the friendly hands that
held him, went to the mans side.
1t is iii the middle" ne said, with a
white face and painting breath. There
is no window to the open air"
The fireman gave low expressive
whistle.
DO YOU know the way to jt?" he said.
Il think l do. | believe l could find
it."
Direct me as nearly as you can"
81 am coming. too"
The fireman said nothing, there was no
time for argument, but dashed forward
to the fire escape which was by now
placed against the front window lie
cambered up it with the celebrity born
Of long habit Hugh followed quite as
quickly, urged by love and despair.
They found themselves in Mr.. Beale's
bedroom, room which the young man
had entered several times before
The door is on this SIDE" he said to
the fireman, and l think the one we
want is opposite to it on the other side
OF the passage"
They found the door ard opened it, but
were met with rush of smoke ard heat
that drove them back again. The lire
man pushed to the door quickly.
I'm afraid it is no use" he said; eve
can't get through that, and by leaving
this door open we are creating draught,
and endangering the whole building"
But we can't leave her to die" gasped
Hugh.
The man shook his head Il don't see
what We can do" he said, unless there
IS some other way of entrance to the
room"
The mar was perhaps not hero, not
the sort of fireman one hears of some
times who will fight and fight against
the deadly element and never know when
he is beaten; but no doubt as far as his
judgment went, he was right; the out
-ook W&s hopeless enough!
When Hugh heard the hopeless utter
ance OF the man, he dashed to the win
cow and down the fire escape again. A
little knot of firemen were standing
round the foot of it. From one of them
he borrowed a helmet, coat and hatchet.
and then asked for wet cloth to tie
round his mouth.
lie was horribly impatient while it was
beng procured, though it was only the
work OF few moments, for it was les
sening the chance of saving Hester's life
When he was equipped he once more
assembled to the window, from which his
companion the fireman was looking out
For Gods sake, don't 90, sir" said
the man. Its no good, and you will
'nly lose your fife"
Hugh did not even hear him. He had
crossed the room in a moment. and had
once More opened the door into the pas
sage
The smoke and flames were being
drawn up the staircase as through n
tunnel. AT present rs far as he could
ladge through the dense atmosphere, the
door OF the locked room was intact. God
grant that the flames had not burst into
II from the room below He dashed into
me thick smoke, hatchet in hand, his
mead bent low. His eyes shut, ne CROPPED
ABOUT bhndly for the door. In few mo-
Inehts his fingers were on the handle. He
turned and shook it, it did not move;
itals' then, was the right room-the
locked one.
lie was beginning to feel confused and
glddy, but he still had enough sense left
70 Know what he was doing. lie raised
ms hatehct and dealt two or three pow
y yi. blows on the panels of the door.
would it yield, or would his strength
IIui before he had completed his task
lie was staggering like a drunken man,
out ne struck on, and presently with n
..ash 1t fell inwards, and he, with the
impetus, fell forward too. For a moment
,'e lay still, face downwards. Perhaps
Liot iail saved his life. The bedroom.
Enough terribly hnt NraS for tho Y,,nnput