She was hatless, and a streak of blood appeared over her left temple.
"Don't jump!" shouted several men loudly.

"A policeman has just started up to get you." Miss Dodge appeared somewhat dazed; it was a question whether she understood.

But her face disappeared from the window way.
To many of the horrified ones below, it appeared as though the imperiled girl had swayed dizzily away from the window, as though overcome by the heat and fumes from the windows below her.
"Where is the fire department?
Is it never coming ?" wailed one woman in the throng, wringing her hands.
No one here knew that the citizen who had rushed to send in the alarm had found the first box out of order.

He was now rushing to another alarm box.
Out of the hallway came the policeman, white-faced and tottering weakly.
"I---I couldn't get up much above the second floor," he gasped, in a voice out of which the strength was gone.

"I---I guess the---heat and smoke got me! But---some one---must try!" Where was that fire department?
Dick, staring over the crowd, found that all of his chums had arrived.
"Come on, fellows!" he yelled.