The Adventures of Captain Heman Kenney and Lady Catherine 1833-1917

As Lloyd and Gerald looked towards the well known Kenney Show House, they stopped in their tracks.  They couldn’t move.  Unconsciously biting down hard on their pipes, they both saw it at the same moment.  Fire.  The one thing that brought fear to their inner being.  Fire.  The side of the great house closest to the water was afire.  The fire was small, but it grew larger by the minute.

            “Fire!” They finally could speak the word.  Gerald and Lloyd yelled, “Fire!” Emptying their pipes and jamming them back into their pockets in unison,  they ran as fast as they could towards Captain Kenney’s house.  The house was still a half mile away as they ran up the road.  Lloyd jumped the fence and headed through the field.  Gerald was right behind him.  They both knew this was the shortest way to the house.

            “Fire! Fire!” they both shouted as they desperately tried to close the distance between them and the fire.  The snow was not deep, but it was still very slippery and slowed the progress of the two desperate men.  Gerald and Lloyd thought they would never reach the house.  “Gerald, you bang on the front door.  I will meet you at the well.”

            There were twenty-four steps up to the wrap-around  veranda.  Gerald only used half of them to get to the top.  He ran along the veranda, shouting, “Fire! Fire! Get out! Fire!”  Still, there was no response.  He banged on the door so hard that he thought it would break.  Finally the door was opened by Captain Kenney himself.