CHAPTER IX.

Queen Square--Incidents in the Burning--The Old Pitcher--"God is burning up the World, and He won't make another"--Saved from the Flames--Overtaken by Fire Three Times--The Night of Terror on Queen Square--Alone amidst Perils--The Lone House on the Square--Three People under a Table--The Sailor--"If I die to-night, sir, hunt them up"--The Escape--The Deserted Streets--An Anomaly--The Marine Hospital--What a few Buckets of Water did--The Wiggins Orphan Asylum--The Block in Canterbury Street--The _News_ Office--Savings Bank 101