"H'm! thinking more of herself than of the baby!" sputtered Percival,
who had run to support Jack. "Are you all right, old man?"

"Yes, but it was a close shave. Look! the place is all in flames now.
It was lucky I went up there when I did."

"You are very brave," said Margaret, running up to him and seizing
his hand. "I do not know how to thank you."

"Never mind trying, Miss Margaret," said Jack simply. "I am glad
that I was able to do something. How was the child overlooked?"

"Every one supposed that the nurse had attended to him. She is
always with him at night. I suppose she was frightened and left
him, and then at the last moment thought of him."

The girl nearly fainted again in her excitement, and fell against
Jack's shoulder, Percival raising her and saying:

"There, there, brace up. It is all right, and Jack Sheldon has
shown himself a hero as he has done many times before."

"I shall never forget him!" exclaimed Margaret, and then her father
and mother took her away, and the boys continued their work.

The fire company was getting down to business by this time, but if
the Hilltop boys had not made a good beginning for them they could
have done nothing.