Show WONDERFUL RESCUE 9 HOW SERGEANT VAUGHAN SAVED A 4 1 LIFE AT A HOTEL FIRE A member of the tew rew who endangered till ow own n U to ste gaet guest of tl if a hotel koyal wl 0 kd had about given ip tp all hope jacob A rife author of I 1 how tho the other halt lives I 1 m writes rites of heroes r ar who fight 1 I ire I 1 in the tile century the I 1 article is one of tho the series heroes of peace I 1 ui lir kits tells the follot following story of a heroic rescue at the hotel 0 royal fire iu in ai bew em I 1 orl some years ago sergeant aughan went up vip on oil the root roof the smoke waa was BO so dense there that he be could see little but through it 04 he heard a cry for help and aide mie out r the shape of a standing upon guiton a window windom sill in the fifth astory ON overlook k AN ar lug ing the courtyard of the hotel hote tho yard was betm een him bidding his 4 baw men follow they were five all told I 1 a 0 ran down and around in the next liz street to the root roof of tho the bouso house hat that A formed an angle with the hot hotel 0 I 1 cwg N ing PI 1 I there stood the waif banow hint liln Tonly only a jump away bu but t a jump which no mor inor tal tat might tal 0 and live his ills tco face an I 1 bands hands mere v ero black with smoke aughan vl looking domn a thought him a iio ile 4 V ai 4 was perfectly calm 4 it is no ue ho paid faid glinting glin cing up it don t try you can t do it the sergeant looked wistfully about him not Is ot a stick or a piece of rope was in eight sight every shred was used below there wits absolutely nothing cut but 1 couldn coulden t let lot him I 1 ho be seid tome to me mouths months 11 af after ter when ho he had bad como come out butof of tho the hos pital am a aholo hole min man again and was back at work I 1 I 1 just couldn coulden t standing there so quiet and brave I 1 to the men ho be said sharply I 1 want ou on to do exactly as I 1 tell you bow dont don t grab me but let me act ct the first bret grab he had bad noticed that tho the man wore a heavy overcoat and had bad already laid his plan don t try urged the man I 1 lou ou cannot save me I 1 will mill stay hero bero till it gets too hot then I 1 will jump I 1 no youdon you won t from the sergeant as he be lay at f full nil length on the roof look lug ing ot oner er it is a pretty hard yand down there I 1 will get you or go dead myself I 1 the four sat on the sergeant a legs as he be swung free down to tho waist so he be was almost able to reach the man on the window with outstretched hands lands now jump quick he c command ed and the nan man jumped he ile cau caught glet bun by both wrists as directed and the her fc ergeant geant got i grip on the coll collir v r of liia life coit co coi it t floist I 1 be he shouted to the four en on t the roof and they tuggy I 1 with their might the sergeant a body did not dot idono bending over till the back creak ed it hung over ho edge a weight of 20 pounds suspended from and holding it down the told sweat started upon liis ilia men a foreheads i ai as they tried and tried again without gaining an inch blood dripped from sergeant N ai at ghan glean a i nostrils strlla and ears cars sixty feet below wag was the paved courtyard over against him was the Avin window dow beli behind fild which he saw the back draft coming gathering head way with lurid swirling emoke smoke N how OW it burst through burning the hair and coats of tho the two for an instant he thought all hope was gone bat but in a flash it camo came bad to him to relieve the terrible dead weight that wrenched and find tore at his muscles he was swinging the man to an I 1 fro like a pendulum head touching bead he ile could swing sm ing him up UPI I 1 A smothered shout about is warned big his men they crept neater the edge ed 90 w U without letting go their grip on ora him and watched with staring eyes the human pendulum swing wider and wid tr lr farther and farther until bow with a mighty effort it swung within their reach they caught the skirt of tha the coat held on pulled la in nud and in A moment lifted him over the edge they lay upon the roof all sill aft ri their faces turned to the winter biter sky tho the tumult of the came up lip as a faint echo the pray of a score of engines pumping be low fell upon them froze and cohered covered them with ice fee tho the very roar of the fire seemed tar far off the sergeant was the first to recover lie ile carried down the man be bad wed and saw aim sent off to the tile bosi hosl ital then firlit rt bo be noticed that ho he was waif not a negro the smut had hall non ix eu rubbe I 1 off oft his fico pice monday had bad dawned before be came to and find day lays pissed before he kieu hia his rebeter ber ser gentit N anghan was laid up himself then ue ile had returned to his ills work and finished it but what he had bad gone through VM As too much for aumau burned strength it was spring leforc bo be io 10 turned to big his quarters to fled find himself promoted 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