Frank inquired of many who stood near him if they could tell him the number of the house which was on fire; but none could inform him.
Presently the flames began to die away, and the crowd to disperse.

At length Frank reached the first line of spectators.
"Can you tell me the number of the houses which are burned ?" Frank said to a policeman.
"There are two of them," the policeman said "a hundred and four and a hundred and five.

A hundred and four caught first, and they say that a woman and two children have been burned to death." "That is where I live!" Frank cried.

"Oh, please let me pass!" "I'll pass you in," the policeman said good naturedly, and he led him forward to the spot where the engines were playing upon the burning houses.

"Is it true, mate," he asked a fireman, "that a woman and two children have been burned ?" "It's true enough," the fireman said.