The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28

Continued from iesterunt'
Late on that same evening, Johnnie
Coleman, sleepy and disappointed, pre-
pared to leave the corner of the alley
where he had kept faithful vigil all the
afternoon, and set himself TO return to
the dirty piece of mating on the floor
in his master, the costermonger's,
abode, which mating he, being an Or
phan, accepted as bed and lodgment.
Suddenly his eyes were attracted by a
bright glare in the sky, and hardly had
he had time to receive the impression
of this when the cry of Fire. fret
resounded through the street, and set
him running off at racing speed for the
exciting scene OF the disaster. 1t was
some distance away, and as he ran he
was quite that another fleet
footed figure pursued him-no other
than his gal" Angel Middleton. She
had crept out Of her wretched dwelling,
poor child, siel with hunger and stupe-
fed with grief, and perceiving her rag
ged boy friend waiting for her at the
corner, had come toward him slowly
and languidly, and had been just about
W tdil nill NY name Nlltll Ol ~ ildu
rushed at the pace described, not see
ing her; whereupon she In the mere
nervous impulse of the moment, fol-
lowed. Soon the two, running thus,
were merged and lost in the great
crowd of people who stood looking UP
at a wreath of brilliant flames that
darted from the roof and walls of a
small shop and dwelling In meth
house of a general grocer and dealer
In oil and household provisions. Owing
to the inflammable nature of the goods
kept in the store, the fire grew fast
and furious, and though the engines
rapidly arrived, it was evident that
very little could be dom to save the
perishing building. The owner of the
place threw himself from one OF the
windows, and escaped by a miracle
without injury; but when his wife. half
suffocated with smoke. was dragged
out from the burning walls more dead
than alive, she struggled frantically to
rush back again into the heart of the
flames.
my children. my baby!' she
screamed and walled. Save them!
Oh, save them! Let me go. let me die
with them!"
STEADY, motherl' said one of the
pliy blB IibiiSiii iioioiiiS X arm III q
tight grip. "'Taint no use frettin'
Leave the little 'uns to Cod"
Yes. truly to God. and-His Angel
For suddenly the crowd parted; a lit
tie girl. white-faced and dark-eyed
with golden-brown hair streaming be-
hind her like a comet. rushed through
and made straight for the burning
house. There was a Mortified pause
then Johnnie Coleman's shrill voice
J rendered shriller by terror, cried out
2 IT'S Angel! Angel Middleton"
, angel Middleton!" roared the crowd,
? not Knowing the name, but catching
, " up and echoing it forth like "a cheer
? in responsive excitement. "Hooray foi
| Angel. There's a brave gel for ye!
e See; she's got the baby
l And. sure enough, there at one of The
burned-out windows. with smoke and
flame eddying round her, stood Angel
4 holding a tiny infant in her rms, the
= While she looked anXiously down into
The street below for some further
: means of rescue. Several people rushed
4 forward, holding an extended sheet
D which had been hastily procured. and
4 fearing lest she should be stupefed into
I inaction by the smoke. they shouted
Throw it, Angel. Never fear! Throw
it dcwn!"
t Whereupon Angel threw the child: j
, was caught in safety, and she, the res
5 cuer. vanished. Only to reappeai
Q again, however, at the same window
with two more small children, of about
I . and 4 years of age, at sight OF
which such a thunder of exclamation
went up as might have been heard a
6 the furthest holes and corners of de
graded Whitechapel. She. meanwhile
Z smoking window-frame, demanded il
! clear, ringing tones:
n Are there any more children? Are
these all?"
e Eyes, yesi' shrieked the frantic
mother, running forward with her just
Y restored baby clasped 10 her breast
All! You've saved them all! Goo
e love you, deari'
G Once more the protecting sheet was
outspread, and without any haste o.
alarm for her own safety, Angel le
e one child after another drop straightly
d and steadily from her hold; they were
e caught and saved, uninjured. Then al
8 interest became centered on the cir
heroine herself; and as the wall OF
which she had her footing tottered Il
= and fro, a great cry wen up from thu
y crowd.
c quick. quick. Angel! Jump
a smile crossed her pale face for &
moment, she looked to right and left
a md was just about to leap from hel
4 erilous position when, with a sicken.
4 ing crash, the brickwork beneath heI