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dressing gown. She had been hunting for the fire, so we both started for the seat of the flames Soon all the boarders appeared some dressed in slippers and blankets, others in night gowns +c. A doctor residing on the top floor came down stairs at 80 miles an hour dressed in a pair of trousers and a scared look, he pranced about in an excited way all the time holding on to those trousers and his scared look. He was nervous; don't blame him, I should have been in such a costume. A tender hearted middle aged lady the one of the pink wrapper was hardly recognizable having in her haste left some little hair [[strikethrough]] h [[/strikethrough]] above, or rather there was very little hair [[^]]left [[^]] above - She was a picture. After some little hunting the flames were discovered to be nothing but smoke coming from a cupboard, under the stair - case. Where one of the maids had left a box of cinders