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LAURA BRAYTON. 37 other moment up amid the smoke -and flame one was upraised. | Glenn sprang on its round, but ut that instant a brick, loosened from above by the stream from some engine, came down full in the hero’s face, casting him back, bleeding and senseless, on the eround. ; “He is down and she is gone—no use!” shouted an engineer, for the face of the horror-stricken woman could not now be seen at the window. Flames were leaping out from every window, above and below. Steady the ladder, men—steady it. Brave Sammy Glenn’s resolve shall not fall with him !” | | This was the cry of the young man whom we have followed in this chapter, as, dressed in his. broadcloth, gloved, capped, and booted in the latest fashion, he sprang up-the ladder. “Come back! come back!” shouted a hundred voices. “You’ll die, and do no good!” But on and up, the flames above, below, and all around him, swiftly he sprang, and soon at the very top of that ladder, he paused for only a second to see where she was, if, indeed, not already a burning corpse. One instant only he paused, and then strong men held their breath and trembled as they saw him leap in through the red-sheeted fire. Would he ever return? A minute—the roof seemed about to fall in—the whole house a fiery wreck—and many a one groaned, “He is lost!” ecomicbooks (e(o)