"And you raised the alarm?"
"I should think I did."
"Then you didn't come directly here?"
"Yes, I did, but I yelled fire pretty lively all the same, and started the stable boy up the street to wake everybody up."
"Where was the fire burning then?"
"On the back end of the store. A blaze was just starting up through the roof."
"It was on the back end, you say?"
"Yes; and just as I got here the back windows burst out, and the way the flames rolled up was a caution."
"Was there no fire in the front store then?"
"No, there didn't seem to be when I first got here, but after I went round to the rear end to see how it was there, and came back, the flames had come through, and everything was ablaze. I tell you what, I never saw anything burn like it."