"The very thing! But I could not go with him. This other man is suffering so," and she poured more oil on the face that had not yet been bandaged in cotton.
"Cora could run the machine, and I could hold Jim—they say his name is
Jim."
"Poor Jim!" sighed the young lady doctor. "He has a very slight chance. See, he is unconscious!"
Ed rushed out, and in a short time had the Whirlwind at the door. Jack and Walter were still busy with the fire, but they stopped when he called them, and together all three carried Jim tenderly out, and when Ed got in first they put the man in his arms. Cora also had been summoned, and without as much as waiting for her cap, but, getting into the cloak that Bess threw from the hall rack, she cranked up, and was at the wheel, following the directions for the nearest way to a hospital in Waterbury.
"It is his only chance," remarked Miss Robbins, when she heard some one say the jolting of the auto would kill him outright, "and both the car and its chauffeur can be depended upon."
CHAPTER XI
THE RESULT OF A BLAZE
"That was plucky, Cora."
"What, Ed?"
"You running into Waterbury with a man who might have died in your car."