Part 13 (1/2)
”Quick!” shouted Cora, ”we can get the buckets Bess take that one,”
pointing to the pail that hung on the wall, and which was filled ater ”Belle, run around and find another! Regina is with the injured irl! Won't you please get a bucket fro lady ”The fire extinguishers see back the flames from the stairway”
In a reirls and woade under Cora's direction, and as fast as they could get the pails they handed the all in their power to keep the fire fro-room floor
”What happened?” demanded one woman, when Jack turned to take a pail of water fro man
”Oh, mercy!” exclai the men with her questions ”Any one hurt?”
”Yes, three,” and Jack, his shi+rt sleeves rolled up, and looking like the earnest worker he was, dashed again down a step into the dense s but noetted ork
It seeuests but our own friends had run out of the building, and were huddled on the porch or standing in the rain under the trees along the path
Ed and Walter had carried the cook and the dishwasher out from the kitchen immediately after the explosion of the boiler, and the other injured ones were in the little cottage adjoining the hotel, where Miss Robbins was binding up their burns and ood use of her skill and the ency case
”But I aerously injured,” she told Ed
”A piece of the boiler struck hio to the hospital?” asked the young man
”Without question, if he could But this is so far fro like a hospital”
”We could take hie enough to ! But I could not go with hi so,” and she poured ed in cotton
”Cora could run the machine, and I could hold Jihed the young lady doctor ”He has a very slight chance See, he is unconscious!”
Ed rushed out, and in a short time had the _Whirlwind_ at the door
Jack and Walter were still busy with the fire, but they stopped when he called theether all three carried Jiot in first they put the man in his arms Cora also had been suetting into the cloak that Bess threw from the hall rack, she cranked up, and was at the wheel, following the directions for the nearest way to a hospital in Waterbury
”It is his only chance,” re of the auto would kill hiht, ”and both the car and its chauffeur can be depended upon”
CHAPTER XI
THE RESULT OF A BLAZE
”That was plucky, Cora”
”What, Ed?”
”You running into Waterbury with a ht have died in your car”