ittle paragraph about it, as I saw once my reeling brain
permitted me to read:

"At least a score of survivors owe their lives to the bravery of
twenty-eight-year-old Navigator Orris Hope, who patrolled both
aisles during the panic, lacing life-belts on the injured and
helpless, and carrying many to the port. He remained on the sinking
liner until the last, finally fighting his way to the surface
through the broken walls of the observation room. Among those who
owe their lives to the young officer are: Patrick Owensby, New York
City; Mrs. Campbell Warren, Boston; Miss Joanna Caldwell, New York
City--"

I suppose my shout of joy was heard over in the Administration Building,
blocks away. I didn't care; if van Manderpootz hadn't been armored in
stubby whiskers, I'd have kissed him. Perhaps I did anyway; I can't be
sure of my actions during those chaotic minutes in the professor's tiny
office.

At last I calmed. "I can look her up!" I gloated. "She must have landed
with the other survivors, and they were all on that British tramp
freighter the _Osgood_, that docked here last week. She must be in New
York--and if she's gone over to Paris, I'll find out and follow her!"

Well, it's a queer ending. She was in New York, but--you see, Dixon
Wells had, so to speak, known Joanna Caldwell by means of the
professor's subjunctivisor, but Joanna had never known Dixon Wells. What
the ending might have been if--_if_-- But it wasn't; she had married
Orris Hope, the young officer who had rescued her. I was late again.

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