Then she heard a cry from below, saw them carrying a ladder, and at last was lifted with her burden from the ledge by powerful hands.

Then only did she raise her eyes to the upper window whence had come her help.

Smoke and flame were pouring from it.

The unknown hero who had sacrificed his only chance of escape to her remained forever unknown.
***** Only four miles away that night a group of men were waiting for the dawn in the shadow of a pine near Heavy Tree Bar.

As the sky glowed redly over the crest between them and Hymettus, Hamlin said:-- "Another one of those forest fires.