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THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF FLOYD GIBBONS, ADVENTURER
By NORTON RUSSELL
The Story So Far:
There was only one kind of life Floyd Gibbons ever wanted — one filled with adventure and excitement. It was natural that he became a reporter. His first job was that of cub on the Minneapolis News, and when his father had him fired from there because he didn't want his son to be a reporter, Floyd went to Milwaukee and got work on another newspaper. Before long be landed in Chicago in the midst of a newspaper strike. When the strike was over he joined the Chicago Tribune. Life in one city was too tame for him, so he went to join the army of Pancho Villa, the Mexican bandit, as special correspondent. His graphic wordpictures of Villa's fights soon made him the Tribune's number one foreign reporter and when the paper sent its own man to France to cover the World War, it picked Floyd. He could have sailed on the same ship which carried Von Bernsdorff, the returning German ambassador, but that was too safe for Floyd. He chose, instead, to go on the English liner Laconia.
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THE Cunard liner Laconia plodded through the black waters of the North Atlantic, two hundred miles west of the Irish coast. It showed no lights. Rolling in the trough of the waves, it might almost have been a part of the ocean itself.
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Yet it had been seen. A quarter of a mile away a German submarine, lurking just below the troubled surface of the sea, was making ready to send a message of death to the Laconia 's heart.
In the Laconia s lounge, Lucien J. Jerome, of the British Diplomatic Service, had just said to Floyd Gibbons and. a companion, "Nonsense. The chances are two hundred and fifty to one that we don't meet a sub."
And the torpedo struck the Laconia.
Almost at once the ship began to tilt. Floyd ran down to his stateroom and put on a light (Continued on page 84)
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