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Presently they got inside and began to be able to see through the smoke; a blue glimmer became visible, the branch was pointed, and it was gone. By this time the second floor had partly given way, and fire was creeping down the rafters to the eaves of the house. Baxmore observed this; and pointed the branch straight up.
"Look after him, Baxmore," he gasped, as he seized the lamp from his comrade's hand, and darted across the room and out into the passage, where he went crash against a door and burst it open. Here the smoke was not so dense, so that he could breathe, though with difficulty. One glance showed him where the bed was. He felt it. A female form was lying on it.
As long as they could only stand in the street and throw water in through the windows at haphazard, they might or might not hit the fire and at all events they could not attack its strong points; but now, Baxmore at one window, and one of the men of the first engine at another, played point-blank into the flames, and, wherever the water hit, they were extinguished.
It was you that asked the doctor, wasn't it, for another bottle?" Corney was about to speak, when a young fireman entered the room with his helmet hanging on his arm. "Is it go on?" he inquired, looking round. "No, it's go back, young Rags," replied Baxmore, as he refilled his pipe; "it was only a chimney, so you're not wanted." "Can any o' you fellers lend me a bit o' baccy?" asked Rags.
"They're out wi' both engines," said Baxmore, who was busy making a memorandum on a slate. "With both engines!" said Frank. "Ay, both," replied Baxmore, with a laugh, as he sat down in front of the fire. "Let me see; it's now nine o'clock, so they've bin off an hour; one to Walton Street, Brompton; the other to Porchester Terrace, Bayswater. The call was the queerest I've seen for many a day.
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