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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 30, 1948
Page
6
In a tense sequence Jack Henley and Elsie Fenway board a yacht off Shoeburyness to rescue his imprisoned father. Tension rises as Jack hides his disguise while rumors of capture and a potential escape loom, entwined with his growing love for Elsie and the risk of being discovered.
Jack Henley recognizes Rogers as his father’s enemy aboard a yacht where Elsie helps him slip aboard. Rogers, calm and affectionate to Elsie, delays suspicion while Jack plans to free his father. Jack seizes a pistol, discards disguise, and avoids detection as he moves toward the yacht’s deck.
Jack Henley, guided by a fragment of information, locates his father Coline Henley in a closed cabin off a warded hallway. He frees him with a pocket knife slash and both embrace amid a stealthy intruder slipping behind them, prompting urgent caution.
A Baltimore scientist offers a third of a cent per firefly and speculates thousands may be earned as tests continue. Fireflies glow from both sexes and even in the ovary, drawing crowds as September evenings host family hunts and excursions with illuminated insects in tiny cages. An Morgantown amateur once kept fireflies in a bedroom to boost luminosity for a personal curiosity.
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