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? ? ? ? "Down that road," cried the frightened woman, pointing toward the south where a mighty wall of roaring flames shut out the view.
? ? ? ? "Put these people in the other car," shouted the stranger to Clayton. "I saw one as I drove up--and get them out of here by the north road.
? ? ? ? "Leave my car here. If I find Miss Porter we shall need it. If I don't, no one will need it. Do as I say," as Clayton hesitated, and then they saw the lithe figure bound away cross the clearing toward the northwest where the forest still stood, untouched by flame.
? ? ? ? In each rose the unaccountable feeling that a great responsibility had been raised from their shoulders; a kind of implicit confidence in the power of the stranger to save Jane if she could be saved.
? ? ? ? "Who was that?" asked Professor Porter.
? ? ? ? "I do not know," replied Clayton. "He called me by name and he knew Jane, for he asked for her.
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