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Indeed, that one glimpse of reality had been worth his ten days of waiting worth all his watching of the gate and its keeper until he knew every dent in the keeper's derby hat, every bristle in his unkempt mustache, every wrinkle of his inferior raiment, and every pocket from which throughout the day he would vainly draw matches to relight an apparently fireproof cigar.
When the cue of tightly packed men and women had advanced along a corridor on the other side of the doorway, it began mounting a fireproof staircase. Up and up it went, slowly, steadily rising from story to story, but it did not spread across the whole width of the wide, shallow steps.
Some houses were built of adobe bricks, and the two-story frame Parker House was thought to be so fine that it rented for fifteen thousand dollars a month. Some wooden houses were brought out from the East in numbered pieces, like children's blocks, to be put together here, and others thought to be fireproof were of iron plates made in the East.
Whether any or all of them are advisable is a matter for the owner and his architect to decide. Robertson Ward, architect. If a fireproof cellar is wanted, cover the ceiling with metal lath and a good cement plaster. This should extend up the stairway, and the cellar door should be of fire resisting construction.
Has not the blazing of fireproof constructions again and again singed off the eyebrows of dauntless firemen? My impression is that "fireproof," in the American tongue, is one of those agreeable but quite meaningless phrases which adorn the languages of all nations. Another such phrase, in the American tongue, is "right away!" ...
"I thought so too," he agreed, "but Lake Jo just slipped out. It seems so much better. Lake Jo! That would look fine on a prospectus." "You'd print the cover of it in blue and gold, I suppose, wouldn't you?" "There would need to be a splash of brown-red in it," he reminded her, considering color schemes for a moment. "The roof of the hotel would, of course, be red tile. We'd build it fireproof.
"So do I," said their Father. "How would you like to go out to the Kura and see if we can find a real happy picture to hang up there?" Taro and Take jumped up and down and clapped their hands for joy, they were so glad to go out to the "Kura." The "Kura" is a little fireproof house in the garden. You can see the corner of the roof sticking out from behind the mountain in the picture.
No doubt Fenwick's servants had taken advantage of his absence to make a holiday. For the most part, the rooms presented nothing out of the common; they might have been inhabited by anybody possessing large means. In one of the rooms stood a desk, carefully locked, and by its side a fireproof safe. "No chance of getting into either of those," Gurdon said. "Besides, the attempt would be too risky.
The home of the press was comfortably ceiled and made into a guest-chamber, and apples and potatoes are stored in the fireproof vault.
There isn't a stick of wood in that building from cellar to attic." "And the cars, are they fireproof, too?" John M. Hurd looked up sharply. "No," he said slowly. "No, I don't suppose they are. . . . Still, there's nothing to set the cars afire. They're safe enough in that building. Nothing can happen to them there."
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