valve-wheels

Updated: May 18, 2025

The furnace door slammed until she thought the fireman must have thrown in coal enough to last till morning, but unable to realize the danger of overloading the fire he stopped only long enough to turn various valve-wheels about her feet, and with his back bent resumed his hammering and shovelling as if his very salvation were at stake: so, indeed, that night it was.

Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman - The Daughter of a Magnate