"There is no danger; I am quite strong now." Mr.Earl took my hand and told me in a low, calm voice, all he knew of the tragedy.

He only knew, however, that the lamp had exploded and that Rayel had been horribly burned by the oil.
"I suppose," said he, "that the lamp was on a table near his bed when it exploded.

In a moment the whole room was afire, and you, no doubt, being asleep at the time, he lifted you up and ran with you down the stairway and out of the open door.

But in the meantime he had been horribly burned, and he fell in a faint as soon as he reached the pavement.
Strangely enough you were unconscious for some moments, although you were not badly burned.

Probably it was the smoke." Then no one knows, thought I, what really did happen that night.