All he could find were the London _Times_, which he pronounced T-e-e-m-s, and some issues of the _New York Herald_.

The papers were nearly a month old, but he did not care for that.

Jefferson idly turned over the pages of the _Herald_.

His thoughts were still running on Shirley, and he was paying little attention to what he was reading.

Suddenly, however, his eyes rested on a headline which made him sit up with a start.