The Captain's face was blackened, and his clothes were scorched, but his spirit was undaunted.
“Pashy,” he said, “do you realize that if we don't git help, this whole shebang, house and all, will burn down?”
“Perez, you don't mean it!”
“I wouldn't swear that I didn't. Look how that thing's blazin'! There's the barn t'other side of it, and the house t'other side of that.”
“But can't you and me put it out?”
“I don't dare resk it. No, sir! We've got to git help, and git it in a hurry, too!”
“Won't somebody from the station see the light and come over?”
“Not in this fog. You can't see a hundred foot. No, I've got to go right off. Good land! I never thought! Is the horse gone?”
“No; the horse is here. Abner took one of the store horses to go to Harniss with. But he did take the buggy, and there's no other carriage but the old carryall, and that's almost tumblin' to pieces.”
“I was cal'latin' to go horseback.”