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"Chimbley's on fire!" somebody else shouted, having just caught the word chimney, and everybody began to run back to the house. "No, you idiots!" roared Lally; "but, by my sowl, if it isn't Turly's head that's perked up on the chimbley as if it was Cromwell's head on Newgate!" Screams followed. Nurse Nancy, who was of the party, dropped on the road, and Walsh had to stop and hold her.
It seemed a long time before she heard his voice. "There! there!" he was saying. "You open that door and I'll look in an' see if the chimbley's ketched." In a moment Amarita followed him. She heard mother Meade moving about the kitchen, and Elihu was just dropping his roll of paper on the fire.
Amarita turned from her mother-in-law with a noiseless rush and flew out of the front door and down the slippery path. "Elihu!" she called, with all the voice excitement left her. "Elihu, you come here. I've got to speak to you." Elihu left the horse and came with long strides up the path, taking, as he hurried, glances at the roof. "Roarin', is it?" he asked. "You think the chimbley's ketched?"
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