Accounted For.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 October 1914, Page 2

Accounted For.

Suddenly a white form appeared at a window. All about leaped th j mad flames. A portion of the wall had fallen, and it was too hot for the firemen to go up after the man, anyway. But see ! A noble hero dashes under the ropes, makes his way to the lift, and shoots up to the third floor, where the lonely form is still standing. Within about eight and one-half minutes he comes tearing out of the building with the life he had saved beside his own. Just then the entire building and the man who held the mortgage on it collapsed. About seventy-five thousand people rushed over to see the hero —the man who, at the risk of his own life and without the aid of a brass band, went to the rescue of one lone man. " 'Twas indeed noble of you," the people cried, with one voice. "Why did you do it ?" "Well," said the hero, "I had to. He owes me two shillin'."