Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-07-07
CHAPTER XVII
Mr.. spearman Goes North.

bon copy-that message which had
brought tension to the offices of Cor
vet, Sheriff. and Spearman and had
called Constance Sheriff. and her
mother downtown where further infor-
nation could be more. quickly OBJ
tained-was handed to Constance by
clerk as soon as she entered her ia
theirs office. She reread 1t it already
had been repeated to her over the tele-
phone.
81 :05 a. m. Frankfort Wireless sta
ton has received following message
from Number 25: we have Benjamin
Corvet, Of Chicago, aboard"
you've received nothing later than
this?" she asked
Nothing regarding Mr. Corvet, Miss
Sheriff." the clerk replied.
"The crew."
"Yes; we have just got the names of
the crew." He took another copied
sheet from among the pages and hand
ed it to her, and she looked swiftly
down the list of names until she found
that of Alan Conrad.
put the paper down. and began to take
off her things. She had been clinging
determinedfy In her thought to the
belief that Alan might not have been
aboard the ferry. Alan's message,
which had sent her father north to
meet the ship, had implied plainly
that some one whom Alan believed
might be Uncle Benny was on Number
25; she had been fighting, these last
few hours, against conviction that
therefore Alan must be on the ferry,
too.
She stood by the desk, as the clerk
went out, hooking through the papers
which ne had left with her. What she
was reading was the carbon Of the
report prepared that morning and sent,
at his rooms, to Henry, who was not
yet down.
The last message read: IS 40, Pc
toskey is calling Manitowoc, Signals
from Number %, after becoming in
distinct, failed entirely about AS,
probably by failure of ships power
to supply current. Operator appears
to have remained at key From 5 :25
to :43 we received disconnected mes
sages, as follows: Have cleared an
other car they are sticking to
It down there engine-room
crew Is also sticking hell on
car deck everything smashed |
they won't give up u
sinking now we're going |
good-by stuck to end |
all they could know |
that hand it to them i
have cleared another car sink |
S. o. Signals then en-
tirely ceased"
Constance had not realized, until the
reports of the wireless messages told
her that he was gone, what compan-
Ionship with Alan had come to mean
to her. She had accepted 1t as al
ways to be existent, somehow-a COM
which might be interrupted
often but always to be formed again.
Il amazed her to find how firm place
he had found in her world of those
lose to her with whom she must al
ways be intimately concerned.
The telephone switchboard beside
operator, plugging in connection,
said: Eyes, sir; at once" and through
he partitions of the private Office on
he other side, q mans heavy tones
anne to Constance That was Henry's
'ffice, and In timbre, the voice was his,
tut it was so strange in other charac-
eristics of expression that she waited
N instant before saying TO the clerk,
"Mr. Spearman has come in?"
The clerk hesitated, but the con-
inuance of the tone from the other
ide of the partition made reply SUI
erfuous. "Yes, Miss Sheriff."
Constance went TO Henry's door and
apped. He made no answer and no
love to open the door; so, after wait
lg a moment, she turned the knob and
lent in.
Henry was seated at his desk, facing
er, his big hands befores him; one
them held the telephone receiver.
lie lifted II slowly and put 1t upon the
ook beside the transmitter as he !
dltllCu lti Win ottNuSt Sitbts rs
ressiye scrutiny. He did not rise;
ply after moment he recOlected that |
2 had not done so and came 10 his {
sei GOOD morning, Connie" he said. =
Come IN. WHAT'S the newsT
The impulse which had brought her J
10 bis Office went from her. She bad :
u ~eeD nor heard from Henry direct q
: since before Aims telegram had
me late yesterday afternoon; she 5
I'D beerd from her fofher only that y
; isd Informed Henry; that was all.
I'VE 40 news, Henry" she said \
iage your She closed the door be- y
nd her, moving closer 20 blp, >
HOY 40 you happen " be hers d
pnpleT he asked
she made 40 reply Dpf gnEed ~ him
udylng him The agitation which he
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