e such stupendous chance, or heaven-wrought miracle, as only
desperate valour ever wins. A figure huddled in a blanket lay in his
arms, and as he came racing towards the crowd they fell together.
They were lifted and borne out of the circle of fierce heat and flying
sparks.

The house was left to burn, and every thought was centred on the rescuer
and the rescued. The fresh air roused Bertha from her swoon, and at the
first opening of her eyes and the first words she spoke the mother went
as mad with joy as she had been with terror.

'Alive!--alive! Safe!--safe! And oh, my God! my Christian friends, it
was the Butterfly as did it!'

But it was a full month later when Lane Protheroe asked his first
question,

'Where's Bertha?'

'Hush! my dear, dear darlin',' said Mrs. Fellowes, her eyes brimful of
tears. 'Lie quiet, there's a dear.'

'Where's Bertha?'

'Safe and well, love; safe and well.'

'I'm thirsty,' said the Butterfly.

He was supplied with a cooling drink, and fell to sleep smiling, with
unchanged posture. In half a dozen hours he woke again.

'Where's Bertha?'

'Here, dearest.'

And we leave them hand in hand, yearning on each other through their
blissful tears.

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