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But whatever my vague fears, they fell far short of the occasion; and when I saw those yells from without crystallised into scare headlines and flaming capitals I turned for a moment sick and dizzy with fear.
It was the English edition of the Era. Then he read the headlines. He ran his eyes down the page, reading the vivid little phrases, and drawing from the whole a kind of impressionist view of the scenes in the Abbey on the previous day, of which he had already been informed by the telegraph, and the discussion of which had been the purpose of his interview just now with the Holy Father.
The City Wall of Jericho Collapses. Carthage Reduced to Ashes. Rome Sacked by Huns. Yes, there had been magnificent headlines in the past. Now a new headline Paris. There would be a sudden flurry; boys running between desks; Crowley trying to shout and achieving a frightful whisper; a smeared printer announcing some ghastly mistake in the composing room; and Paris would be down fallen.
The whole presented rather a striking appearance. The document was headed with the name of the Trust in large letters. Under this came a number of "scare headlines" such as: SEE WHAT YOU SAVE! Then came the real prospectus: The Locksley Lines Supplying Trust, Ltd. has been instituted to meet the growing demand for lines and other impositions.
And now Lise was holding a newspaper: not the Banner, whose provinciality she scorned, but a popular Boston sheet to be had for a cent, printed at ten in the morning and labelled "Three O'clock Edition," with huge red headlines stretched across the top of the page: As Janet entered Lise looked up and exclaimed: "Say, that Nealy girl's won out!" "Who is she?" Janet inquired listlessly.
He also took a malicious satisfaction in shooting something into the office that would keep them all on the jump for the rest of the day and perhaps late into the night. Jimmy, accustomed to thinking in headlines, had been formulating a head for the story; he was now murmuring it to himself as he hurried to a public telephone: DEATH POINTS A FINGER, DEATH POINTS A FINGER, over and over again.
Can't you see the headlines? 'Another Sidney Street. 'Chinese Pirates Busy in London. 'Scotland Yard Outwitted. By this time tomorrow the Commissioner will be suggesting that you and I ought to think about retiring on pensions." Winter jumped up, overturning a chair in his haste. "Come!" he said. "If that Chinaman in Bow Street won't speak, I'll torture him.
He glanced at the headlines and saw a name that caused him to utter an exclamation of astonishment. He did not stop to discuss the matter with any of the large crowd that had been collected, but whipping up his horse soon reached Mary's home. Leaving the animal standing in the yard he burst into the sitting room crying loudly, "Mary! Mary!" "Why, what is the matter, Quincy are you hurt?"
Miss Gibson, though anxious to be polite, was not likely to know or care anything about Ireland. Gorman left us and joined them. "Well," I said to Ascher, "what do you think of this performance in Galway?" "Have you read the newspapers?" he said. "The headlines," I replied. "I couldn't very well help reading them." Ascher stepped across the carriage and picked up one of the papers from the floor.
Turning a fresh page presently, his eyes wandered leisurely over the staring headlines, and came suddenly to a halt before a trivial item inserted among the Western news. It was a brief notice of his divorced wife's marriage, and to his amazement the announcement caused him an annoyance that was almost like the ghost of a retrospective jealousy.
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