Again he spelled out the name, fearing that he had been under an hallucination.

Doubt was impossible: it was very clear,--_Freya Talberg_.

He took the paper from his comrade's hand, disguising his impatience by an assumption of curiosity.
"What is the war news to-day ?..." And while the old sailor was giving him the news, he read feverishly the few lines grouped beneath that name.
He was bewildered.

The heading told little to one ignorant of the preceding facts to which the periodical alluded.

These lines were simply voicing a protest against the government for not having made the famous Freya Talberg pay the penalty to which she had been sentenced.
The paragraph terminated with mention of the beauty and elegance of the delinquent as though to these qualities might be attributed the delay in punishment.
Ferragut put forth all his efforts to give his voice a tone of indifference.
"Who is this individual ?" he said, pointing to the heading of the article.
His companion had some difficulty in recalling her.