Meanwhile I had to go down into the City. Only that private self, with whom I conferred so urgently and so fervently, knows the reluctance, misgivings and honest-to-goodness wind. up I had to overcome before I ventured out, to break through the cordon of flaming bui lidings.
But what courage I lacked I quickly him, borrow from the wardens and civi-lions whom I found scrambling into or e les. blazing otices to drag out valuables Smoke-blackened faces would suddenly become recognizable as fellow-newspapermen who had come out to lend a hand. And the auxiliary fire- 5 civilians pumps or careened wu up sllevways which were like furnace mouths.
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