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Isaac Bell raced down the grand staircase

Captain Turner was running up the stairs, heading for the bridge, shouting orders to turn the Mauretania away fro the flames

Bell ran to the fire His prisoner was trapped in the baggage roouard to safety

The bugle shrieked the alarht fire!

Passengers milled Stewards tried to calhtened questions The ship heeled, leaning away from a sharp turn that put her stern to the weather The decks lurched Ship’s officers bellowed into ers to the boat deck”

The stewards began pleading with people to put on their life vests

A woman screamed

Isaac Bell sh to see the fire It was a bitter cheunpowder oddly layered with shiffs of brandy Suddenly he saw flaly bright a fire as he had ever seen, with an intense white-orange color He felt the heat fifty feet away

He saw a band of stewards whose uniforer fro a hose Bell ran to help theed half bald His green eyes blazed in a face black with soot

“Archie?”

“Hoas dinner?” asked Archie, striding into the burning baggage roo steam from the hose

“You OK?”

“Tip-top Most of the explosion went up the hatch, and our PS boy did hi Block out”

“What’s burning?”