She caught Clara in her arms.

"Oh, my darling! my darling! news of them at last." Without answering, without the slightest change in look or manner, Clara took the newspaper from the ground, and read the top line in the column, printed in capital letters: THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
She waited, and looked at Mrs.Crayford.
"Can you bear to hear it, Lucy," she asked, "if I read it aloud ?" Mrs.Crayford was too agitated to answer in words.

She signed impatiently to Clara to go on.
Clara read the news which followed the heading in capital letters.

Thus it ran: "The following intelligence, from St.Johns, Newfoundland, has reached us for publication.

The whaling-vessel _Blythewood_ is reported to have met with the surviving officers and men of the Expedition in Davis Strait.