Jefferson, less fortunate, was compelled, to his disgust, to share a stateroom with another passenger, a fat German brewer who was returning to Cincinnati, and who snored so loud at night that even the thumping of the engines was completely drowned by his eccentric nasal sounds.
The alarming summons home and the terrible shock she had experienced the following morning when Jefferson showed her the newspaper article with its astounding and heart rending news about her father had almost prostrated Shirley.

The blow was all the greater for being so entirely unlooked for.

That the story was true she could not doubt.

Her mother would not have cabled except under the gravest circumstances.

What alarmed Shirley still more was that she had no direct news of her father.