Then the people cheered and cheered again; and well they might, for they had witnessed a thing that makes every heart beat high with pride—the speedy rescue of lives by heroes who freely risk their own in the performance of duty.
By this time the efforts of the firemen began to tell; the water began to conquer the flames, the fire was soon under control, and the danger was over.
The chief, who now had time to look about him, spied Jack at the fire line.
“Come here,” he called.
Jack came running, proud to be thus singled out.
“Hello,” he said, “you are the boy who turned in the alarm, aren’t you?”
“Yes, sir,” replied Jack.
“Go to school?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Good work, my boy, good work! Come around to the fire station and see me after school today.”