CHAPTER SIX.
The flames had fairly caught.
"There's St.Paul's!" some one cried.
As the wood caught the city of London was lit up for a second; on other sides of the fire there were trees.

Of the faces which came out fresh and vivid as though painted in yellow and red, the most prominent was a girl's face.

By a trick of the firelight she seemed to have no body.

The oval of the face and hair hung beside the fire with a dark vacuum for background.

As if dazed by the glare, her green-blue eyes stared at the flames.