The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-15
at didn't hurt,n June insisted.

1T didn't hurt, June insisted.
$50 we tried to get in through the
bathroom" Clint explained. "There
wasn't any fire in there; so got
thatSwindow up and climbed in; but
when / opened the door into their
room, it was all on fire inside. Fire
was spouting out of the wall right
beside the bathroom door,"
''The laundry-chute is there"
June interrupted.
"And it was roaring in the cell
lar" Clint confessed. II could feel
it hot under my feet. The smoke
was pretty bad. Then piece of
the floor in front of me burned
through; and then the flames licked
up at me, and had to back out and
shut the bathroom door,"
"But you said you got them out"
Tope reminded him. "Mr. and Mrs.
Hurder.', slt -issi
'sI'm coming to that" Clint ex-
planned. ''We tried another win
dow, right beside their beds. !
smashed it open, and smoke poured
out, but no flames. So l straddled
the sill and my foot hit their bed in
side" He spoke rapidly, his eyes
fixed straight ahead. II felt some
one, and / dragged Mrs. Hurder up
and lowered her out of the window
to June, and then him. The bed
was all afire, little flames" 81
And he said, looking at the girl
beside him: "They weren't burned
much, / don't think. We were just
in time. The fire spread awfully
fast"
Inspector Tope suggested: Fire
department must have been there
by then!"
Clint shook his head. "No, they
weren't! They didn't get there till
after Mrs. Taine did. Not till after
Asa did, as a matter of fact. June
and had been pretty busy, but it
must have been quite a while"
Miss Moss echoed: MRS. Taine?"
"You see," Clint explained, ''Mrs.
Taine and Asa were staying with
Mrs. Bowdon last night. Mrs. Tame
said they didn't hear anything till
their lights went out, and she went
to look at the fuses, and saw the
fire through the pantry window.
She came running over, just about
the time we got the old people out;
and then Asa came. He and ! car
ried them into the Bowdon house,
out Of the rain. And Mrs. Taine and
June started taking care Of them.
But June came out again when I
did,"
"Were they dressed?" Tope asked.
''Mrs. Taine and Asa?"
"Oh, yes," Clint said casually; and
he went on: "By the time the fire
engines came, one wing was all
afire, and the other was well start
ed; and they couldn't get the plug
off the hydrant right away. There's
only one hydrant and that was
three or four hundred yards down
the hill. The whole thing went, be-
fore they got it checked at ALL"
"Burn to the ground?"
"The floors fell in," Clint assent
ed. "And part of the roof. I don't
know; maybe the walls wouldn't
co."
June's eyes were closed, and Miss
Moss tried to sign to Inspector Tope
to be still; but he asked insistently:
"What about the others? Mr.. Taine,
and Rab? Where were they?"
It was June who answered: "Rab
had gone to Providence right after
supper" she said. "He had case
in court there tomorrow morning.
And Uncle Justus is deaf. He
wouldn't hear anything" She re-
membered: "We saw him turn out
his light to 60 to bed, just before
we saw the fire."
"Saw him?" Tope echoed.
"Saw his light 60 out" June
amended. "In the kitchen. He liked
to 60 to sleep in his chair after
supper, and sometimes he didn't
wake up at all. But we saw his
light 60 out"
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