Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-26
CONFESSIONS
~ OF A
B r [ d E

Jane. dear" Cbrys called softly She
,ose as she spoke and Jordan Spence
rose also, and they came toward me,
hand iD hand ike little children. Evil
IDENTIFY they expected me to accept their
love affair as 4 matter OF course That
was quite easy because | had accepted
it long before they themselves had dared
TO admit its existence TO themselves!
made no comment on the familiar clasp
ing Of their hands. Chrys continued:
I'm selfish, jane Just think! You
might have gone down"
I stopped her with a caressi Then
turned to DR.. Spence with:
Gene Archer, He was on board. you
know. Where DO his relatives live?"
The question reused Spence from his
dedication to the service Of Chrys aud
set him to consider the wider demands
which the tragedy made upon him. DR..
Trayers, coming slowly with evil It'd
ings, was vastly relieved to and that we
knew the worst Together the men as
sumed all obvious duties and invented
many more.
They wired Mother Lorimer and Jim.
Jr., assuring both that they did not be
lieve the report that the lone had
gone down. She was a supreme example
OF non sinkable craft They Insisted that
discovered as soon az the high sea sub
sided. They forwarded the news that
had not been aboard the lone" when
she sailed. although the wire service re-
ported Mrs. Robert LOrimer and Dr.
Henry Travers as belonging to the party
on the missing yacht.
jim, Jr., wired back that he had OBJ
tanned permission to go to n gulf city
from which point he himself would take
up the search for the yacht in plane
"And l wouldn't wonder IL the kid
picked up some clews He was always a
lucky devil" I heard Spence remark
to Travers. "a score Of flying men are
on the job, but I'll bet on Jim
Said I to myself, There are lots of new
things under the sun. Never before has
a boy set out in a plane to rescue his
father from a derellct In the name
of high adventure. 1t ought to follow
that Jim should sweep down and snatch
his father from a life raft" By such
mad inventions I counted the chances
which would bring Daddy back to u.s.
Underneath my anxiety about Daddy
was the deeper concern about my hus-
band. Finally | realized that everybody
was caught up with the shlpwreck and
had TO remind them that Bob's fate
might be worse than his fathers. I said
TO Cnrys:
I'm going to ask Or. Travers to 20
ont 10 the hacienda with me at once.
I see that you are depending on Jordan
Spence
Il am" she said simply. THANK you
for letting him remain here"
When DR.. Travers and ] were started,
at last, for the hacienda. | thought of
what. Daddy Lormer had decided about
MS when he found that we had left the
yacht together I felt hysterfcal and
awfully sorry for myself. It seemed
dreadful that he who had loved me so
should farbor such a dreadful notion
about me.
Travers drove the car. We seldom spoke
as we tore along, but l knew that he
was brooding over the disaster from
which he had escaped, while my mind
vas divided between the catastrophe we
were leaving behind US and that which
re We're about to face.
couldn't plan what to do at the
hacienda aud Travers knew nothing what
ever OF the situation there. We would
have to adapt ourselves to circumstances
as we found them.
one thing was sure: IF life ever did