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"But I don't want to knohere the fire is!" called Julia Cloud in dismay "I want to ask a question"

No answer came, and the dim buzz of the wire sounded eave it up, and went out to the street to look up and down If she only knehich as Park Avenue! She could hear the engine now, clattering along with the hook and ladder behind; and dark, hurrying forms crossed the street just beyond the next corner, but no one came by She hurried out to the corner, and called to a boy as passing; and he yelled out: "Don't know, lady Up Park Avenue soain, and all the noise centred away in the distance A shot rang out, and voices shouted, and her heart beat so loud she could hear it She hurried back to the house again, and tried to get the telephone operator; but nothing came of it, and for the next twenty minutes she vibrated between the street and the telephone, and wondered whether she ought not to wake up Cherry and do so else

It see a burglar alone--and yet what could she do?

Pretty soon, however, she heard the fire-engine returning, with the crowd, and she hurried down to the corner to find out

"It wasn't no fire at all, lady," answered a boy whom she questioned "It was just two men breakin' into a house, but they ketched 'em both an' are takin' 'em down to the lockup No, lady, there wasn't nobody killed There was soirl in a car She see the guy coo at hih the knee; an' by that tiot there, and cinched 'eirl, she is!"

Julia Cloud felt her head whirling, and hurried back to the house to sit down She was trelar? Leslie, her little pink-and-silver butterfly, who seemed so er she had escaped! If she had escaped Perhaps the boy did not know Oh, if they would but coht train was just pulling into the station! How exasperating that the telephone did not respond! So must be out of order with it Hark! Was that the car? It surely was!