New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-28

Bascom stopped sending and threw up the switch to
receive He addressed them again.
"Were not the only ones with advice. That Gladi.
ator fellow has been throwing it in too and New York
and the Others Strnger has managed to get most Of
the world Interested If he gets out Of that fix
he'll draw pay from vaudeville circuit, sure And
think Of it! gorilla loose-n charge OF the shp-the
They were thinking of it. Since the first S. o. s
Thompson had been thinking, until it seemed to him
that he had never considered any other subject The
winds violence and the determined roaring Of the sea
outside their snug retreat only urged imagination
to higher power if one had any imagination to draw on
HAS he said anything
Bascom raised his hand for silence. He listened
holding his breath that he might correctly interpret
everyone Of those delicate ticks at his The batteries
were giving out and the messages from the Hyperion
growing fainter, if the operator had been injured and
was dying. Bascom looked up.
"IIe has rugged a wire loop. The ape flung club
and dashed in his window. But he's ready for him.
What chance! None!
ale NAV have one, little one, hoped Thompson.
He paused; for BaScom had caught his breath again
The operators eyes dated and his fingers on the desk
edge whitened under the strain OF his grip lie seemed
to witness some exciting struggle.
Coming up the deCk-Cllmbing the bndgc" the
light isn't holding him-he's quit sending
Its going to be finish in the next few minutes
sighed Thompson.
The men in the pagoda stirred uneasily. Bascom
wiped his face and then twisted the handkerchief until
his nails tore it, Each of them felt that he ought
TO spring outside, shrek orders to the fellow,
advice encouragement do something TO lend hin
Gdcnce and strength: but a glance showed the black
waste surrounding them, the lifting of huge waves,
white Tipped, when the lightning and forced 'oon
them the fact that the man they sought to he'll vas
five hundred miles out in the black, and that thcN ncw
Of his situation only through those tiny clicking 1t
Bascons ear as faint and meaningless withou, inter-
probation the stirring OF bug IN plboX j. vas
almost too strange and Gerry to be credited S'Eo Tor
the hand at the key and the thin alr-ung voo, this
would mean another derelict an overdue report.
f,ar ctpryo q the battling explanation.
THE night Waterman broke the silence. He um-
blcd thickly, $40 ye-do we hear anything.
Bas,om shook his head without looking up. Then
he suddenly flung his head on one side as he alw. did
when concentrating his lips moved, frown pu >c,od
his brow.
terrified whisper to the others Something's wrong!
He's irving to send and can't 1t can't be that either
If he was conscious, he'd do better than i its
the beast, He's inside and footing with the key.
This last sentence BaScom fairly screamed ou'. lie
sprang his switch pulled it halfway down and then
thrust it back again. His face went white.
a can do nothing" he mutered pltifuly. "l''s I'll
up! There's the Gladiator calling They've heard it,
The others were as Mortified. The policeman rarcd
at the Waterman, and suddenly weakly sat donn in
his chair as if the strain Of standing had been much
for him. Thompson bit his lips nervouSy.
ITS a grcat-a big story, he muttcred 70 hin SELF;
but | wish hadn't been here tonight"
For five long minutes this silence and horror lasted.
They waited for BaScom to say something cheering;
but he did stir utter sound. The little room
swan round and seemed oyerheatcd.
Krucppcl abruptly Sworc and cried out, Let me Co.
This things got me twitcring.
"Dont-don't 60 with EN-. Thompson. Wa, o.
me till I'm through work. don't want to sit here
All right agreed the reporter in a colorcSs tone.
All right. | understand; III stay"
THE animal king the patroman and the wat Imam
hurried out into the frcshcr air, drawing long traits
Of it in relief. For long time there silence in the
little pagoda. Thompson looked at his watch.
"Ntarly five o'clock Its clearing. III ncycr VAN,
to pass another night with wireless not if live TO-
"Ouict'" cried BascOm and he bent forward. 81