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was little or no wind.  Fell asleep again and at about 4 AM was awakened by somebody knocking gently at my door.  I thought I was dreaming but the knock repeated and somebody opened the door slightly.  Then I saw it was Martha, the cook who tole me in a low very self possessed voice as if she did not want to awaken the other people in the house:  [[underlined]] "Dr. Baekeland your barn is afire."  [[/underlined]]  I thought I was dreaming but she repeated the same sentence in the same moderated voice.  Then I rushed to the window of the "spare
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room" and saw big flames shooting upward from the South Western Corner of the Barn where the Balance room is and where I keep my delicate instruments  I rushed to the 'phone and notified the Fire Department.  Then hurriedly dressed and hurried down stairs to the barn.  [[underlined]] George [[/underlined]] had already preceded me.  His sister had helped him by lacing one of his shoes while he laced the other.  When I came down stairs I found that the hook and ladder wagon had just arrived and that they were coupling a hose
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