He looked down from his window.

The alley was silent and empty.

No one there, evidently, had yet had an alarm.
Quickly putting on his boots, he hurried down, and made his way in the direction of the flames.

From below they were still scarcely visible, and he concluded that the fire, wherever it was, must have broken out in a top storey.

Driver's Court, which backed onto Storr Alley, with which it was connected at the far end by a narrow passage, was an unknown land to Jeffreys.