Harry kept talking to the girls; it was awful funny to hear him. Those
other two fellows didn't have a chance at all. Gee, I was glad of it,
because what right did that fellow have to say I was just a kid? That girl
that helped us, said we were _just wonderful_. Cracky, I wouldn't say that
we're so smart, but when there's a fire we don't stand wringing our hands
as if they were a fire bell.
When we came into Haverstraw, we found the streets full of people,
everybody watching the fire on the mountain. We could see the east side
of Eagle's Nest and the fire, just as plain as if it were all on a movie
screen. It seemed kind of funny, because while we were up there we never
thought about how it would look from the village. The fire was right up on
the top of the mountain now, with little patches in other places, and we
could see a great big burned space. I guess that was the very part we had
passed through on our way up.
I could see now, even better than before, the danger we had been in. I
guess everybody in the village thought we were dead, because when we looked
away up there it just seemed as if nobody could have escaped out of all
that.
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