<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</SPAN></span></p>
<h2><span> </span> <span>LII.</span></h2>
<p>There was a cry of "Delia" and no more. But suddenly the flames spurted
out in a blinding glare that shot upward to an immense height, a
blinding brilliance broken by a thousand flickering gleams like the
waving of swords. And a gust of sparks, flashing in a thousand colours,
whirled up and vanished. Just then, and for a moment by some strange
accident, a rush of music, like the swell of an organ, wove into the
roaring of the flames.</p>
<p>The whole village standing in black knots heard the sound, except Gaffer
Siddons who is deaf—strange and beautiful it was, and then gone again.
Lumpy Durgan, the idiot boy from Sidderford, said it began and ended
like the opening and shutting of a door.</p>
<p>But little Hetty Penzance had a pretty fancy of two figures with wings,
that flashed up and vanished among the flames.</p>
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