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CHAPTER XXXVIII
WE FIGHT AND RUN AWAY
"Where are you?" Harry shouted; "all call together."
We could hear several voices answering all together, "Here."
"Keep shouting," he called; "we're coming. Is there any open land up
there?"
"No," a voice said; "hurry!"
We followed the voices and pretty soon came to the observation station. It
was just a little shanty with a trestle-work wooden tower close to it.
"Did you get 'phone connection yet?" Harry called as we came up.
"Guess the poles are burned down," a fellow's voice answered. "We can't
even get Central. Have you got water?" he fairly wailed. "We're going to
be burned alive! Have you got water?"
Inside were two girls and two young fellows.
One of the girls was wringing her hands and just sobbing, and the other
girl was trying to calm her down. She just kept crying, "It's coming nearer
and nearer! What shall we do? Oh, what shall we do?" One of the fellows was
all gone to pieces, too, and he just clutched Harry's arm and said, "Save
us; can't you save us?"
Harry just kind of threw him off. He said, "We're here to save you if we
can, and die with you if we can't.
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