The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-06-30

telephone. Henry Strengthened, us
tened; as the voice stopped, his great
finely-shaped head sank between his
shoulders; he fumbled in his pocket
for a cigar. and his big hands shook
as he lighted it, without word of ex-
cuse to her. A strange feeling came to
her that he felt what he dreaded APP
preaching and was no longer conscious
Of her presence.
She heard footsteps in the larger
room coming toward the office door,
Henry was in suspense A rap came
at the door. He whitened and wet his
lips.
Come in," he summoned.
One of the Office girls entered, bring
ing white page of paper with three
or four lines of purple typewriting up
on it which Constance recognized must
be transcript of message just re-
ceived
She started forward at sight of 1t.
forgetting everything else: but he took
the paper as though he did not know
she was there. He merely held it I'M
I'll the girl had gone out; even then
he stood folding and unfolding 1t, and
his eyes did not drop to the sheet.
The girl had said nothing at all but,
having seen her. Constance was
athrill; the girl had not been bearer
of bad news, that was sure; she
brought some sort of good news! Con-
stance, certain of 1t, moved nearer to
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down and read.
what is 1t, Henry?"
His muscular reaction, as he read,
had drawn the sheet away from her;
he recovered himself almost instantly
and gave the paper to her.
1886 a. m. Manitowoc, Wis.," she
read. 'The schooner Anna S. SOlwerk
has been sighted making for this port.
She Is not close enough for communi-
cation, but two lifebOats, additional to
her own, can be plainly made out. 1t
is believed that she must have picked
up survivors Of No. %. She carries
no wireless. so is unable to report.
Tugs are going to her."
1.-TWO lifeboats!' Constance cried.
THAT could mean that they all are
saved or nearly all; doesn't it, Hen
ry; doesn't it?''
He had read some other significance
in it, she thought, or, from his greater
understanding of conditions in the
storm, he had been able to hold no
hope from what had been reported.
That was the only way she could ex-
plain to herself as he replied to her;
that the word meant to him that men
were saved and that therefore it was
dismaying to him, could not come to
her at once. When it came now, it
went over her first only in the flash
of incredulous question.
The telephone buzzer under his desk
sounded; she drew close as he took
up his receiver.
"Manitowoc?' he said. 81 want to
know what you've heard from the Sol
werk. You hear me? =.
The men the Solwerk picked up. You
have the names YETI"
"The Benton?"
90. ;"
"Oh. I understand! All from the
Benton. see! -. No; never
mind their names. How about Number
%? Nothing more heard from then?"
Constance had caught his shoulder
while he was speaking and now chung
to it. Release-release of strain was
going through him she could feel it,
and she heard it in his tones and saw
it in his eyes.
"The steamer Number % rammed
proved to have been the Benton" he
told her. ''The men are all from her.
They had abandoned her in the small
boats, and the Solwerk picked them
up before the ferry found her."
He was not asking her to congratu-
late him upon the relief he felt; he