He had gone to home for a few hours of shut-eye after putting the paper to bed the night before,
I think it should just be "gone home", you do not need the "to". You could say "Gone to his home", but that would probably be needlessly wordy and irregular construction.
but here it was, hardly six a.m., and he was back where he belonged.
This might not make things good for his relationship with Alice if he thinks he belongs in the newsroom.
It helped ease his guilt that Alice and Keith had gone to Des Moines to visit Jerry at Iowa State.
But Iowa State is in Ames. I just have to point this out since my grandfather got his Ph.D. there and my father was born there.
He raised an eyebrow. So, Lois was keeping tabs on Kent’s location now, was she?
Wait, this is his first notice of this.
Perry had guessed something had happened during their stay at the Lexor Hotel, but he was waiting for official confirmation before saying anything.
He should have expected something from that setup. Although maybe he had not realized how hard Lois was pursuing Clark the week before.
No wonder Kent had been half in love with Lane since that first day.
Of course that is largely a result of things Perry knows nothing about.
If a beautiful, intelligent woman had looked at young Perry like that… Well, actually, she had, and Perry had married her.
Altough, Perry is probably mostly right. Kent was trying to not transpose what he had seen of the other Lois too much.
“Kent can take care of himself. He wouldn’t want you worrying yourself to the bone just because he forgot to call in when he got a hot tip,”
But he did call her, which is why she is so worried.
“No, Perry. He’s been abducted,” she replied.
I like it when people cut to the chase.
Perry paused his step and returned his focus to her. “Come again?”
Well, it is not the first time Clark has been kidnapped. Also, what with two break-ins of his apartement, this should not be too surprising.
despite the coincidence that his safety deposit box at the National Bank of New Troy had been robbed the other day,
This third detail should establish a pattern.
and even though Clark said he was coming to see me with a huge story before vanishing, Clark won’t officially be considered a ‘missing person’ until tomorrow night, forty-eight hours after his message on my machine.”
That seems a bit excessive.
I called all the hospitals, and even the morgue, but no Clark.
Well, at least that probably means he is not dead. Unless his body is in the river. Hmm.
I don’t know what his big story was,
Clark:Well, it was something I am certain that Lois will decide not to print.
True, finding Kent’s front door wide open was suspicious, but it was possible he left in such a rush that he hadn’t latched it properly.
Very doubtful though.
“You know, Lois,” Perry said slowly. “Wouldn’t you be perturbed if Kent had wasted a night looking for you, if you went off on a story without informing him first? Don’t you think you should give him the benefit of the doubt, and concentrate some of that power of deduction to figuring out what happened to Superman?”
Actually, she is focusing on the more pressing issue.
Lois sent him a glower that made Perry glad that Superman didn’t share his abilities with his friends.
This seems to be a fairly common description of Lois' stares in facfics.
“EPRAD Control hasn’t issued any statement yet. Nobody has seen or heard from Superman since his transmission went out yesterday afternoon,” she informed him.
Well, actually she has, just she does not know it yet. If Cat was here she might start laughing right now.
“And if someone had made off with me, I’d want my partner to leave no stone unturned, looking for me.”
I am sure he would too.
even though he had asked for the position because Alice had said that Jerome needed a father who was there for him.
This might get confusing with multiple Jeromes.
was this beautiful child of seventeen, looking at him as if he were Elvis himself.
“Oh. Oh! Oh! You’re the great Perry White!” Lois had gushed.
I love this interchange.
He had leaned back in his chair and scrutinized her. He wondered if one of his co-workers had sent her to him as a joke.
I guess this is a possible reaction.
Perry’s brow had furrowed in thought. Lane. Doctor. Was this girl Dr. Sam Lane’s daughter? Perry had covered a fight or ten when he was first starting out in Metropolis, before he had found his niche in investigative reporting.
Finally an explanation for Perry knowing Allie.
He had thought she had let that angle blow over, especially with her burgeoning relationship with Kent. Apparently not.
Of course this is because he has no clue what the angle actually is.
Perhaps telling her to search for every person’s hidden secret hadn’t been the best advice.
He might have a point there.
“I’ve been looking into Clark’s past. From what I overheard of their conversation, I thought he was born in Italy, where he witnessed his parents’ death by the hands of the mob over there. He escaped, somehow, to the States as a teenager, seeking out his relatives here,” she said. “So, I’ve been searching the archives of the Daily Planet’s European edition to see if I could find any record of a couple dying in a mob hit, leaving a son behind.”
It might have been kept so secret it never made the papers.
Perry leaned back, steepling his fingers. This obsession of Lois’s was getting bigger and more uncontrolled. He began to suspect he needed to have a word with Kent about telling Lois the truth, whatever it might be.
Clark:I have been planning to tell her the truth for about a week. THinks keep getting in the way.
“Anyway, what if my digging around into his past, clued in these mobsters to Clark’s present location?
Fortunantly this is not the case. Although she is right to think that Clark being missing relates to her.
What if it was because of me that he was abducted?
This is essentally true, although not for the reasons she suspects.
“Because I found your brother’s murderer,” Perry retorted. “Freeing you from that bum rap.
Now that is a story that I would love to hear.
Bill chuckled. “Yeah, that was a good one. I’ve heard about corporate strong-arming, but that’s a bit extreme. Anyway, it only really works if Cost Mart is corrupt too.”
That is to say Clark is 100% correct.
“I never said that, White! Don’t you sic your Mad Dog on me,” Bill said with a chuckle.
“Why not? You’re the one who gave her that moniker.
Oh he is, is he. Interesting.
He could hear voices nearby, muffled by the chill of the cold water. A bright light flashed in his eyes and he moved to cover them with his arm. It felt heavy and awkward. All he wanted to do was sleep.
Clark is alive.
“Here!” said the man from the land, sliding some hard plastic sunglasses over his eyes. “That should help with the light.”
Giving him glasses in this situation really does make sense.
“See this. Handcuffs with the chain broken. I bet he’s some kind of escaped felon,” the policeman said, dropping his wrist.
I just hope this dismissive attidue towards their find does not keep them from doing anything about it.
The firemen grabbed him before he could fall. “That’s okay, we’ve got you. How about you sit down on the stretcher and we’ll take you to Metropolis County Hospital?”
Oh no, that does not sound like a good plan. Although I guess since they don't know he is Clark, finding out he is Superman won't be too horrible.
“We need to call it in. He’ll need a police guard too,” said that rude policeman. “He’s an escaped criminal.”
Rubbish, they have no identity on him.
I just hope Lois gets word of this soon and realizes it is either Clark or Superman. However, it is not too encoraging right now.
The assumption that only criminals would be handcuffed is really narrow minded.
