After that the supervisor very discreetly inquired after the welfare of the young lady who had telephoned.

Had she found any means of getting back to her camp, or of sending any word?
Jack replied she had not, and that there was no likelihood of her getting away before daylight.

There were too many burning trees and stumps and brush piles on the ground in the burned strip, he explained.

It would bother a man to get down there now.

But he offered to try it, if he might be excused from the station for a few hours.