"Quite true, young ladies!" exclaimed Miss Brokaw, tartly. "And it is not
the first fire since the world began. Ruth has just come from it. She will
tell you what it is all about."
"Oh, Ruth!" cried Helen. "Is it the dormitory?"
"Give her time to speak," commanded the teacher.
"Which dormitory?" cried Heavy Stone.
"Now, be quiet--do," begged Ruth, stepping upon the platform, and
controlling herself admirably. "Don't scream. None of us can do a thing.
The firemen will do all that can be done"
"They'll about save the cellar. They always do," groaned the irrepressible
Heavy.
"It is our own old West Dormitory," said Ruth, her voice shaking. "Nothing
can be taken from the rooms upstairs. Only some of Miss Scrimp's and Miss
Picolet's things were saved."
"Oh, dear me!" cried Helen. "We're orphans then. I'm glad I had my violin
over here!"
"Is everything going to be really burned up?" demanded Heavy. "You don't
mean _that_, Ruth Fielding?"
"I hope not. But the fire has made great head-way."
"Oh! oh! oh!" were the murmured exclamations.
"Won't our dormitory burn, too?" demanded one of the East Dormitory girls.
But there was no danger of that. The wisdom of erecting the two
dormitories so far apart, and so far separated from the other buildings,
was now apparent. Despite the high wind that prevailed upon this evening,
there was no danger of any other building around the campus being ignited.
Miss Brokaw had some difficulty in restoring order. Several of the girls
were in tears; their most valued possessions were even then, as Heavy
said, "going up in smoke."
Very soon practical arrangements for the night were under way. Unable to
do anything to help save the burning structure, Mrs. Tellingham had
returned to the main building, and the maids from the kitchen were soon
bringing in cots and spare mattresses and arranging them about the big
hall for the use of the girls.
The East Dormitory girls were asked to sit forward. ("The goats were
divided from the sheep,"
Notka biograficzna
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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.