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Through the Fire.

“You know,” said one, “that the doctors said that, whatever happened, your Royal Highness was not to excite yourself, or the consequences might be fatal.”

“Pray be calm, your Royal Highness,” said another. “You will really make yourself seriously ill if you go on in this way.”

“But who spoke?” asked the Princess again. “I think it very unkind of you all not to tell me. It’s the first time I have heard a kind voice since I left school.”

At this Jack could keep silence no longer, and, despite the red fire-man, who did his best to hold him back, he strode in front of the Princess, and said,—

“If you please, your Royal Highness, it was I.”

“You! And who are you?” asked the Princess, kindly.

“I’m a little boy, and my name is Jack.”

“How did you come here ?”

“I came with him,” said Jack, pointing to the red fire-man. “And you must net be angry with him, for I made him bring me.’

“I am not the least angry, either with him or

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