and breathless.
"That's _that_?" cried Tony. "'Fire,' says you? An' where is there fire
save in the furnaces and the big range in the kitchen----"
He had turned, and the red glare from the room on the second floor of the
West Dormitory came into his view.
"There it is!" gasped Ruth, and just then the tinkle of breaking glass
betrayed the fact that the heat of the flames was bursting the panes of
the window.
"Fur the love of----Begorra! I'll git the hose-cart, an' rouse herself an'
the gals in the kitchen----"
Poor Tony, so wildly excited that he dropped the little "dhudeen" he was
smoking and did not notice that he stepped on it, galloped away on
rheumatic legs. At this hour there was no man on the premises but the
little old Irishman, who cared for the furnaces until the fireman and
engineer came on duty at seven in the morning.
Ruth was quite sure that neither Tony nor "herself" (by this name he meant
Mrs. Foyle, the cook) or any of the kitchen girls, could do a thing
towards extinguishing the fire. But she remembered that Miss Scrimp, the
matron, must be in the threatened building, and the girl dashed across the
intervening space and in at the door.
There was not a sound from upstairs--no crackling of flames. Ruth would
never have believed the dormitory was afire had she not seen the fire
outside.
The girl ran down the corridor to Miss Scrimp's room, and burst in the
door like a young hurricane. The matron was at tea, and she leaped up in
utter amazement when she saw Ruth.
"For the good land's sake, Ruthie Fielding!" she ejaculated. "Whatever is
the matter with you?"
"Fire!" cried Ruth. "One of the rooms on the next floor--front--is all
afire! I saw it from the dining hall! Mrs. Tellingham has telephoned for
the department at Lumberton----"
With a shriek of alarm, Miss Scrimp picked up the little old "brown Betty"
teapot off the hearth of her small stove, and started out of the room
with it--whether with the expectation of putting out the fire with the
co
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain.
John Middleton Murry (August 6, 1889 March 12, 1957) was an English writer. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married, as her second husband, in 1918. Following her death, he edited her work. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, along with the writer Joyce Cary, a lifelong friend.