128
THE WINNING TOUCHDOWN
outer door. Then, catching up several chemical extinguishers, they sprang in through the swinging inner portals. There was a lively blaze in the floor, just over the furnace.
"Douse it! Douse it!" yelled Tom, making a jump for it. "Someone ring the bell! Maybe we can't control it!"
"I'll do that!" yelled Simpson, and a moment later the deep, solemn tones of the great bell boomed out on the midnight air, while the hungry tongues of fire leaped higher and higher.