The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-04-22

tell. Won Parcn's doing the talking.
Now Roy-Ed has Joined him:
surely. We should, have heard be-
! fore this. DO you suppose anything
could have gon" wrong" Surely, they
were prepared But ,odays May seventh
and il should have happened May NTH.
I IT,
"Am right. What's tho rcst"" Stew
ar, looked ZIP from his copying. Grant
shook his head.
"Thry'rr mnnhline--I can't hear. They
seem To nave all gotten over in Il cor
ncr with their heads together and are
trying to talk so that no one around the
club will hear them. Rut-Wait min
utc-thcy're talking louder now--no
they've settled down to that bu%1inG
again. think ] hear Il telephone ring
inC--von Papcn has just told Boy-Ed TO
/ answer 1t. Wait now-watt-
4 strange silence in tho dictaGraph
room. Harrison Grant adjusted the re-
ccivcr closer TO his cars. lie pressed
hand straininGly against II. as though
10 aid him in the hearing of what was
going on over in the next room. but
impossible.
Like Bolt From the Blue.
And al that moment. out on the open
sea. the passengers Of the Lusitanla
wcrc strrlIing happily about the decks
after 4 jovial luncheon. Someone looked
mt his watch To. ahScntly note that the
time was "a wi AS he raised his
cycs--
The deadly. gray sernrnt-likr form OF
a ncrisconr MS il raised itself above the
waves. Tho wake Of a torpedo as 1t
Kissed It's way through the water. Then
n great. rolling roar. shock that trcm-
hlcd through tho whole vessel. Slckcn-
inc lurch and plunge. tho thunder or an
cNploSion--.
Hours later in tho dicta graph room'
Harrison Grant again leaned forward
THAT telephone again. nc annouh-
rcd 81 wonder what ii means? BOY
Ed always answers it. There he goes
again. Guess he'll humble into It, just
as he's done all day--no. he's talking
ln,Jcr this iimc---it's something about
a ship"
His hand clcnched.
81 cont get it, lr grumblcd. "If he'd
only talk loudcr-whats that-the Luz
Silana""
"lusitania"" The two other opera
lives looked up quickly. Harrison
Grant nodded slightly.
Yes. Heard him say something about
IN" Iusitania. S""ms Ia be getting
some Sird cf report over the telc-
phone. as though somr spy were telling
him something that had happened. NO"
he's left tho tclcphnno--he's gone BACK
IL the othcrs-Eood God"
The two operatives leaped to their
feet at tn" ejaculation from their chief
Their staring eyes saw that his checks
were white that the blood was slowly
leaving his lins. leaving them purplish.
CHASTITY.
"Thcy'vc ordered n toast to the
kaiycr.". he annuunr"d coldly. "A tol$:
iii commcm"ratinn Of Gcrmany'S
victory over til" l.usitania. 1t can
moan only IN" thing"
Newsboys Shout Disaster Scareheads.
And as if in answer, up from In"
streets Of New York ihcr" radlatHd tic
SHOUTS If tho nnwShoyS. Ealing tn" heal
lines Of tho first extra
"I.usirania sunk. LuSitania sunk by
Ci"rrnan submarine! Klein. Vanderbilt. !
Hubbard and thousand others missing. |!
Extry paper. Extry paper. all about the |
sinking of the Lusitania"'
So that WAS tho German victory! The |
Iu"itanla sank. YEARLY Grant sank |
into a chair IN" hirtngraph receiver still |
10 his car ON the othcr side OF the !
wall three mon had raised their stcEna |
10 the picture Of the Kaiser. toasting |
him for the idea which had enabled the
fishing smacks to wireless the news Of