The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-02-09

She covered, choking, by the outer |
wall of the room.
The flame daggers grew into scimi- |
tars. The inner wall caught fire |
There was no outlet for the suffOcat- |
ing smoke
Pauline sprank to the middle Of the |
room and seized the broken chair. |
With all her might she crashed 1t |
against the door. 1t fell in pieces at
her feet.
She picked up leg of the chair and,
running to the window, pounded upon
the shutters. She alternately scream
ed and beat upon the shutters. Her
screams were stifled In the sealed
room, it was the rattle and crash up
on the shutters that made Harry rein
in his horse before the house of the
Grigsbys.
Refining, he saw smoke burst from
the lower windows, and, battering on
the locked door, he heard for the first
time the screams.
Harry, Harry"
1t was his own name he heard-from
the lips of the woman he loved. 1t
was to him she called again in her
peril, as she had called before-in the
wreck of the yacht in the den of Bas-
| llinelli and even this day from the rim
OF the runaway balloon Always it was
to him she called Always, inspired by
that call, he had found their way to
safety But now
He thrust the full weight of his
mighty body against the door. 1t held
like solid rock.
Harry. Harry" came the cries
again.
I'm coming, Polly; I'm here!"
| He dashed to where a heavy tree
| limp had fallen under a lightning
blast. He carried it to the door, raised
it and charged with it as a battering
ram. He might as well have slapped
1 at the door with his flat palm.
He looked at the windows whence
/ the smoke poured. The smoke was
mingled with flame now He was half
crazed by the cries from above, He
raised the limb to try to break the
shutters. He stopped and let it fall.
1t was the toot of an automobile horn
and the excited voice of young Bas
sett that stopped him.
What's doing?" gasped the reporter
as he ran up. rs anybody in there?'
Harry pointed to the suffered win
dow of the upper room. The cries
came again, and with the sound of the
woman's voice in his ears Bassett
turned sick. He made dizzy charge
at the door. Harry caught him back
"All three together" he said
They flung their strength at the por-
tal-all three together. And still 1t
held
Bassett turned away, sobbing. He
looked up to see Harry springing into
the big car. 1t came tearing through
the brambles.
What are you doing? You're crazy"
yelled the chauffeur, running toward
the machine.
smash" was Harry's answer. The car
, lunged on at full speed.
The impact rocked the burning
house. Frame and door crashed down
, togethed before the battering car. 1t
plowed for half it's length into the
smoke and fire. 1t stopped an instant,
, quivered and backed out again-a
: splendid ruin.
Windshield and lamps were gone,
+ radiator and hood crushed and twisted,
, tire flat.
On Harry's forehead deep cut
streamed.
; Bassett sprang to catch him, but he
climbed out unhelped. Together they
, Ieaped the shattered wall. Through
! soaring smoke they climbed the quak-
/ ing stairs. They burst into the shut
, tered room.
o The lamp still flickered in it's brack-
ct, but It's light was stifled by the
smoke
. Pauline" called Harry, chokingly
f Pauline, answer me-
+ There was no answer
o On hands and knees he CROPPED oyel
k the hot floor. He found her by the
3 window, where she had fallen Flames
f choked them as they fled.
q Out side he knelt beside her, chafins
8 her hands, when she wakened. He hat
turned her SO that she did not see thu
n towering glare of the flames as tn
v old Grigsby house furnished burn
i penance for It's crimes. She raises
q her arms and touched tenderly hi
J. bleeding brow. He lifted her into tn
Is car that Bassett and the driver ha
1t patched up.
Home, James" said Bassett, wit
in La tired grin, "but stop at telephon
re somewhere and let me tell my hos
he that I've got piece for the paper
Dr. CHAPTER XIV.
Il tell you, Harry. l can't endure
couldn't face anyone ] know
e. want to run away-far, far ava
ne where nobody ever heard of balloon
it or automobiles or me"a
n "Polly, you arn't afaraid Of lit
Is talk are you? Everyone Is saying no
+" brave you were. and, here, when Il
/ dangers over, l find you are a films
little coward"
She picked up one of pile of new
papers that lay on the stand besi'
her, and thrust 1t before Harry's ey
IN with manner at once questioning Al
I'D rebuking. He read the head lines
ad SOCIETY GIRL CARRIED
. OFF IN BALLOON