To move her tonight would be, I think, certain death," answered Dinah gravely.

"She has but passed the crisis of a very serious fever, and is weak as a newborn babe.

We will strive all we can to get up her strength, that she may be able for what may come.

But I trust and hope the fire will be extinguished long ere it reaches us.

Oh, surely never was there fire that burned for days and destroyed whole streets and parishes!" "And oh, my lord, can you tell us if the bridge is safe ?" asked Janet clasping her hands together in an agony of uncertainty and fear.