. Phaeton Rogers; a novel of boy life . at too large for him, and gave him the appearanceof the victorious gladiator in Geromes famous picture. He seemed now to consider himself a veteran fireman,and, without orders from anybody, rushed up to the sidedoor and assaulted it vigorously, shivering it, with a fewblows, into a mass of splinters. He passed in through the wreck, and, for a few min-utes, was lost to sight. I barely caught a glimpse of aman passing in behind him. What took place inside ofthe house, I learned afterward. Miss Glidden had been sitting up reading Ivanhoe,and had paid no att
. Phaeton Rogers; a novel of boy life . at too large for him, and gave him the appearanceof the victorious gladiator in Geromes famous picture. He seemed now to consider himself a veteran fireman,and, without orders from anybody, rushed up to the sidedoor and assaulted it vigorously, shivering it, with a fewblows, into a mass of splinters. He passed in through the wreck, and, for a few min-utes, was lost to sight. I barely caught a glimpse of aman passing in behind him. What took place inside ofthe house, I learned afterward. Miss Glidden had been sitting up reading Ivanhoe,and had paid no attention to the great fire, except to lookout of the window a few minutes on the first alarm. Hear-ing this thundering noise at the door, she stepped to thehead of the stairs, in a half-dazed condition, and saw as-cending them, as she expressed it, a grotesque creature,in tight clothes, wearing an enormous mediaeval helmet,and bearing in his hand a gleaming battle-axe. Shecould only think him the ghost of a Templar, screamed,and THIS MUST BE VUT IN A SAFE PLACE. RUNNING WITH THE MACHINE. 225 The man who had gone in after Phaeton, passed himon the stairs, and soon emerged from the house, bearing ^> the young lady in his arms. It was Jack-in-the-Box. Phaeton came out a few minutes later, bringing hercanary in its cage. This must be put in a safe place, said he to me ; Miss Glidden thinks the world of it. I 11 run homewith it, and come back again. And he ran off, just es-caping arrest at the hands of a policeman who thought hewas stealing the bird, but who was not able to run fastenough to catch him. Meanwhile the firemen were preparing to extinguishthe new fire. There was no water-supply near enoughfor a single engine to span the distance. Some of themhad been left at the great fire, to continue pouring waterupon it, while the chief engineer ordered four of them totake care of this one. They formed two lines, Red Rover Three and BigSix taking water from the canal and s
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