As the rescuers and rescued came out upon the street the crowd, now driven back beyond police lines, started to cheer.
But Dave's hand, held up, acted as a silencer. Dick and Miss
Dodge were carried to a neighboring drug store for attention.
Now the firemen tried to run up ladders to the studio floor, with a view to fighting the flames by turning the stream on through the windows. Flames drove them back. The on-lookers were quick to grasp the fact that had no one acted before the arrival of the firemen, Grace Dodge would have been lost indeed. As it was, the fire fighters were obliged to fight the fire from the roof of the next building.
The office building in which the flames had started was almost gutted before the blaze was subdued.
An hour later Grace Dodge was placed in an automobile and carried to her home, a physician accompanying her.
She had revived for a brief period, but had again sunk into unconsciousness. Whether her life could be saved was a matter of the gravest doubt.
And Dick?
Young Prescott was revived soon enough, after expert assistance had been secured.
Yet he had swallowed more of the overheated air than had the girl.
In the minds of the medical men there was a grave doubt as to whether his lungs could be fully restored—-or whether he would be doomed to a spell of severe lung trouble, ending, most likely, in death at a later day!