The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-25
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 | The tremor from the turbines, con- Bnuous till now and evident always Between the shock of the Falcons Ehells, suddenly had stopped. Every 6ne in the little cabin felt 1t.
 'I spoke with Mir Hanlon, sir," Dan- |els said to Barrett as the commander eeized, him. He understands. He taid he'd stay to keep current for the }ndio..'
 N Scurstow flung down his pliers and Touched. the key. The blue spark of The radio ,rasped across the spark gap. "You can send now?' Barrett cried. $You can sendT' The operators. wrist snapped down. Fhe crash of his spark, leaping and 3caping as he press ed his key, shut tut just then all other sound in the little steel walled room. It made an-. swer and told that, as the ship went down, only the turbines which turned nhe screws had had to stop. To keep the current for the radio to send mes, 1ages to the shore men still stayed at their posts below.
 'Hanlon. Hanlon!" Barrett gasped to Himself as tbe spark still rasped. *sBoy--he bent over Spurstow, but farcful not to touch him-"you are Netting them? You are getting them It home now? Then send-send it all. We found the fleet, and they attacked us. Don't say much of that. That doesn't count. Just that they attack ed, and their force. They're twenty tvo dreadnaughts in their fighting line a-.sour of the Zeus class, six of the Tfajan, four of the Pharaoh, six of tho Ehrgon, two of the Thorr'
 x He had fallen back now and was half Msensible. Like Ensign Griswold, who stpd fallen from the foretop, he was Rambling on and on, repeating the Ships of the enemy over and over again. sFor be had fallen. too, but not upon the { deck this time-into the water It was cool and salty, but choking him, and pfhers were in the water too. Most of them made no cry ard did not thrash kt all, but when he looked at them %hey sank quite easily. Indeed, only tone man near by was swimming at all strongly. He did not seem hurt, and, as Barrett saw him now closer, he un- uerstood why. The man was in civil X NAn's shirt and 50 could have hidden i'll the last moment in some safer part pf the ship. He had on life preserver. aBarrett did not cry to him at all. Bar ' rett was not asking him for help, but !. he came beside Barrett and offered to hold him as well as he could So Bar I rett saw 1t was Banlapd, and, as he recognized him. Barrett pushed him iaway.
 s It was a warm, humid evening of August in northern Illinois, with the leaves on the naples about the Ashby
 home just beginning to turn red and VI with the. grass of the lawn sleek and glistening. The grounds stretched for hundred yards to the road, which led
 up and down gentle slopes to the busy prosperous little city of Elgin, three
 quarters of mile away. As Jim Ash
 by was the third of his name to stake
 his fortune there, success was coming
 to him quickly and easily.
 "So you're sure there1l be no trou
 ble?" asked Ashby's brother-in-law
 Wendell.
 Absolutely! The Europeans art
 withdrawing their cruisers from al
 ports in the Caribbean and showing
 complete compliance with our de
 rands."
 "Compliancew
 'sThe premier has cabled Washing
 ton asking ten days extension of time for making formal reply to the presi
 dents note. and unofficial reports. pass
 ed by the ceEsors say that the Liberal