"Shall we send an ambulance?"
"I reckon he'll get along without it, Chief. It's only the reg'lar dose, as nigh as I can make out."
"How did he happen to be here instead of at headquarters?"
"It was his day off, owing to being a witness in an arson case, and he'd come up to the house to visit us."
"We shall have to put him in a straight-jacket until he is taken on as a fireman, else something serious may happen. This would be a case for a medal if he belonged to the Department."
"That's what he does, Chief. He comes as nigh being one of Ninety-four's men as I am, and if it so be a medal belongs to him, we'll see he gets it."
Seth heard, but did not understand this conversation.
He knew it was one of the battalion chiefs who had been talking with Mr. Davis, and it was enough for him that his name had been spoken in a friendly tone.
The driver leaned over him once more, and asked almost tenderly:
"Will I send you up to the house, Amateur?"