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Your brother Frank, I am told, has had the presumption to pay his addresses to Miss Ward, the young lady who lives with my relative, Miss Tippet. `Yes, Mr Auberly, I replied, `and Miss Ward has had the presumption to accept him " "It was wrong of you to answer so," interrupted Mrs Willders, shaking her head. "Wrong, mother! how could I help it?
"Pray sit down, Mr Willders," entreated Miss Tippet earnestly; "I should like so much to hear how you did it from your own lips, and how you can possibly venture up such dreadful things, just like going up the outside of the Monument.
And Willie Willders followed him like his shadow! clad in a coat and helmet borrowed from a friend in the Salvage Corps. Willie fought in that great fight as if he had been a trained fireman. On the fourth day, towards evening, Frank was ordered down into a cellar where some tar-barrels were burning. He seized the branch, and was about to leap down the stair when Dale stopped him.
"Sure, my peepers is out entirely!" gasped Corney, rushing to the window for air; while showers of water fell on his head, for the engine was already in full play. Just then there was a noise outside, as if men were disputing violently. Dale guessed at once what it was, and ran down the staircase, calling out as he passed: "Here, Willders, Corney, Baxmore, lend a hand, will you?"
Hailing a cab with the air of six emperors rolled into one, Hopkins drove to Mr Tippet's residence, where he learned that Willie had gone home, so he followed him up, and soon found himself at Notting Hill before the door of Mrs Willders' humble abode. The door was opened by Willie himself, who stared in some surprise at the stately visitor. "Is William Willders at 'ome?" said Hopkins.
"I I the fact is, it did not occur to me that you had been at that fire, else I would never but no matter. You didn't see see any one saved, did you?" "See any one saved, is it? Shure, I did, an' yerself among the lot. Och! but it's Frank Willders as knows how to do a thing nately. He brought ye out o' the windy, ma'am, on his showlder as handy as if ye'd bin a carpet-bag, or a porkmanty, ma'am "
Having care enough on his mind at that time, poor man, he deliberately cast the confusion of the two boys out of his thoughts, and gave himself up to matters more interesting and personal. We may add here that Mrs Willders was faithful to her promise, and never more addressed her brother-in-law by word or letter.
They wear a uniform and helmets, something like those of the firemen, and generally follow close in their wake in their own vans when fires break out. "Mother," said Master William Willders one night to his parent, as he sat at supper which meal consisted of bread and milk; "he's the jolliest old feller, that Mr Tippet, I ever came across."
"Yes, sir, I am; but you let me off, you know, so I hope you won't bear me ill-will now." "That depends on how you behave in future," said Dale with a laugh; "but what d'you want with Frank Willders?" "I want to see him. He's my brother." "Oh, indeed! You'll find him inside."
How would you like that, William Willders eh?" "I don't know, sir," replied Willie, with a somewhat depressed look. "Of course you don't, yet that is the sort of place you'd have to work in, boy, if I engaged you, for that is a correct description of my warehouse. I'm a sleeping partner in the firm. D'ye know what that is, boy?" "No, sir."
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