then I read it. This was it.

_"It had been a very hot day, and I had got rather a headache and gone
to bed. The pain kept me awake a good bit, and when I did get to sleep
I think I slept rather lightly. I was partly awakened by noises which
seemed to have been going in my head all night till I could bear them
no longer, so I woke up, and found that people were shouting outside,
and that there was a dreadful smell of burning. I had got on my
flannel petticoat when Rupert called me and said, 'Henny dear, the
house is on fire! Just put something round you, and come quickly.'

"Just outside the door we met Cook; she said, 'The Lord be thanked!
it's you, Miss Henrietta. Come along!'

"Rupert said, 'Where's Mother, Cook?'

"'Missus was took with dreadful fainting fits,' she replied, 'and
they've got her over to the_ Crown. _We're all to go there, and
everything that can be saved.'

"'Where's Baby,' said I, 'and Jane?'

"'With your Ma, miss, I expect,' Cook said; and as we came out she
asked some one, who said, 'I saw Jane at the door of the_ Crown _just
now.' I had been half asleep till then, but when we got into the
street and saw the smoke coming out of the dining-room window, Rupert
and I wanted to stay and try to save something, but one of the men who
was there said, 'You and your brother's not strong enough to be of no
great use, miss; you're only in the way of the engine. Everybody's
doing their best to save your things, and if you'll go to the_ Crown