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272 was concerned, for some treacherous spark, flying farther than its companions, had blown in at the wide-open door and lighted on the hay, where it had lain smouldering until it had  gained strength and was ready to burst forth in  the long tongue of flame that had met Ted’s eye. Already the hay was blazing merrily and sending up a thin banner of smoke, which soon  became a dense yellowish cloud that hid the  sun and the sky. It was too far from any other building to cause any danger of its spreading, so the boys felt that the worst had come. But this was bad enough, for it had gone too far, when Ted discovered it, to make it possible to  put the fire out. While two or three of them raced up to the house to give the alarm, the others stood by, with their boyish hearts sinking as they thought of the damage done by their careless fun, and waited anxiously for Dr. Walsh to come, hoping, yet fearing, to have him know of the accident. The barn was well hidden from the house by the trees, and at some little distance. Would he ever come?

“What do you s’pose he’ll do to us?” asked Phil remorsefully.