Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 26: what you’re looking at

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He} «“]T WONDER IF YOU ARE THAT MAN.” limit, and I believe our course is this way. Come!”’ Now that the danger is apparerit, and Bob knows what he has to face, he shows considerable energy. They increase their pace to arun whenever the nature of the woods will permit. The darkness has had little chance to settle down before it is dispelled by the rapidly increasing glow of the fire. Even the heavens show the reflection— low clouds erstwhile so fleecy becoming an angry hue, while a pillar of black smoke ascends at several points where the fire rages most furiously. Still they press on. Bob notices that his companion begins to lag—she has tramped far and wide during the day, and was already wearied when she met him. Her spirit is willing, but overtaxed nature rebels. Meanwhile the air has grown insufferably hot, while the smoke inflames their eyes. Cinders, blown in advance by the strong wind, shower around them, and in more than one place an incipient conflagra- tion is started where the dead leaves are banked up against old logs. | The roaring sound has also increased, until it has become horribly suggestive of the high carnival being held among the forest trees by the king of fire- demons. ‘To be heard now one must raise the voice to a shout. It is a scene that Bob Pemberton will never forget, providing he is fortunate enough to live through the © experience; openings in the woods to the left allow -a glimpse to be had of the fiery spectacle, and it is certainly awe-inspiring. comicbooks com